Kenzaburō Ōe
Author
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
From the Nobel Prize-winning author: "One of the great short novels of the 20th century" (Jonathan Franzen, The Wall Street Journal ). Internationally acclaimed as one of the world's most influential writers, Kenzaburō Ōe brings to the fore the post-WWII rage and anxiety of a decorous society in this "deathly black comedy . . dripping with nuclear terror" ( The Japan Times ). Bird is an antisocial twenty-seven-year-old intellectual hanging on...
4) A quiet life
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This classic work of world literature by the 1994 Japanese Nobel laureate is a devastating and moving blend of memoir and fiction. An uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction, A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a twenty-year-old woman. Her father is a famous and fascinating novelist; her older brother, though severely brain-damaged, possesses an almost magical gift for musical composition; and her mother's life is devoted...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"[Kogito Choko] returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase rumored to hold documents revealing the details of his father's death during World War II, details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel. Since his youth, renowned novelist Kogito Choko planned to fictionalize his father's fatal drowning in order to fully process the loss. Stricken with guilt and regret over his failure to rescue his father, Choko...
13) Death by Water
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and literary alter-ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his father's death during WWII: details that will serve as the foundation for his
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