Light And Dark A Novel Meian Natsume Soseki John Nathan Translation by Natsume Soseki, John Nathan (translation) B00G1SM2FQ instant download after payment.

Originally published in Japanese with the romanized title of Meian
An unsparing portrait of haute-bourgeoisie society in 1915 Japan, detailing the struggle of a young married couple to assert their freedom from friends, relatives, & employers.
Introduction excerpt:
LIGHT & DARK, Sōseki’s final novel, unfinished at the time of his death, began appearing in daily installments in the Tokyo & Osaka editions of the Asahi shinbun on May 16, 1916. It was the 9th novel he had serialized in the Asahi since he had contracted in 1907 to publish at least one novel a year in the newspaper in return for an annual salary substantially higher than his stipend as a senior lecturer at Tokyo Imperial University.A letter to an Asahi editor dated May 21: “I have been feeling poorly recently, in and out of bed, & apologize for my slightly delayed start with the new novel.”5 The illness to which he stoically refers was the gastrointestinal malaise—an infernal combination of intestinal catarrh, bleeding ulcers, & hemorrhoids—that had plagued him his entire adult life. On June 10 Sōseki writes to the same editor that he has mailed off installment 24; on that day installment 15 was published, indicating that he had managed to accumulate nine installments in advance of their serialization, a slim lead that he maintained until the final outbreak of his chronic condition overcame him on December 9... In place of a compelling plot, Sōseki created an environment, a web of interrelated characters designed to exert maximum social pressure on the two principal objects of his inquiry.
Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji period, known for his books Kokoro, Botchan, & I Am a Cat. He is also the author of Theory of Literature & Other Critical Writings. 
John Nathan is Takashima Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.