Bambi Yasunari Kawabata Julien is not the only

Julien is not the only one to guard a painful secret: his mother’s story of clandestine love breaks through Violette’s carefully constructed defences to reveal the tragic loss of her daughter

and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original

across the country and through the years

the book ends with its hero--and its readers--committed to trying

but made painfully aware of the fallibilty of adults

Bambi Yasunari Kawabata Julien is not the onlyNewly retranslated, this elemental novel about danger, loss, and coming of age in the natural world was the source material for the classic Disney animated film. Bambi first came out in Vienna a hundred years ago, the work of Felix Salten, a Viennese litterateur, journalist, and man about town, and was an immediate success with readers. An English translation soon appeared with an introduction by the Nobel Prize winner John Galsworthy and was widely