And Then: 6

Daisuke lives in Tokyo on his father's allowance, surrounded by books and cultivated pleasures but unwilling to enter either a career or marriage. When his old friend Hiraoka returns with his wife, Michiyo, the calm surface of Daisuke's life begins to give way.The reunion revives feelings for Michiyo that Daisuke had forced into the past. At the same time, his family presses a marriage match and demands that he accept financial independence and a place in society. Daisuke can no longer avoid the people and obligations from which he has kept his distance.To protect a friendship or to follow his own feelings-either choice carries a cost. In late-Meiji Tokyo, conversations and silences tighten around Daisuke until postponement is no longer possible.Published in 1909, And Then follows Sanshirō in Natsume Soseki's sequence of novels. Its incisive portrayal of relationships in modern Japan has made it an enduring classic.