Oe's most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times "close to a perfect novel." In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child? Bird, the protagonist, is a young man of 27 with antisocial tendencies who more than once ...
Edited by one of Japan's leading and internationally acclaimed writers, this collection of short stories was compiled to mark the fortieth anniversary of the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here some of Japan's best and most representative writers chronicle and re-create the impact of this tragedy on the daily lives of ...
In this title, a group of delinquent boys are abandoned in a remote village during the Korean war and manage to survive by stealing food and hunting, only to face the possibility of death when the villagers return.
Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. The selling of their family home leads them to an inescapable confrontation with their family history. Their attempt to escape the influence of the city ends in failure as they realize that its tentacles extend to everything in the countryside, including their ...
A QUIET LIFE is narrated by Ma-Chan, a young woman who finds herself caught up in an unusual family situation. Her father is a brilliant and famous novelist; her older brother, though severely brain-damaged, is a gifted composer; and her mother's life is consumed with caring for both of them. Both Ma-Chan and her brother feel effectively outside ...
Kenzaburo Oe once again takes his brain-damaged son, Hikari, as his subject, in a book about Hikari's growth as a person and a composer, Oe's own writing and the responses to it by some of his supporters and critics, and his fascination with the writing of William Blake.
Oe wrote this loving book about the challenges, sorrows, and joys of raising his brain-damaged son Hikari, and the extraordinary effect it had on his family.
These four novels display Oe's passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other. The earliest of his ...
A Nobel Prizewinning Japanese writer tells the tale of two men known as Patron and Guide. Years ago, they led a religious cult that soured when a group of radicals within it threatened the world with apocalyptic visions. Now, Patron and Guide try to reach out once again, hoping to rebuild their movement.
This is the story of a mother's grief. Her divorced husband has died of cancer and her sons have taken their own lives. To escape her sorrow and guilt, she leaves Japan and travels to Mexico where she settles in a remote village.
Four stories which offer insights into Japanese society are contained in this work by the winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature. The title story is a semi-autobiographical account of a father coming to terms with his brain-damaged son.
Here are two novels by Japan's Nobel Prize-winning author. In "Seventeen," a lost young man, raised in a country which falsifies its own history, is in the throes of becoming a right-wing activist and assassin. In "J," an increasingly isolated and psychotic youth takes up chikan, a game that involves sexually assaulting women on the crowded Tokyo ...
Nobel Prize Laureate Winner Kenzaburo Oe selects and introduces nine compelling stories by japanese writers on the A-bomb and its aftermath in Japanese society from 1945 to today.
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Nobel Prize Laureate Winner Kenzaburo Oe selects and introduces nine compelling stories by japanese writers on the A-bomb and its aftermath in Japanese society from 1945 to today.
HIROSHIMA NOTES is a moving statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy. Noble Prize-Winner Oe's account of the lives of the many victims and those who cared for them reveals the horrific extent of the devastation.
Escritos y publicados entre mediados de los anos sesenta y principios de los setenta, los tres relatos contenidos en este volumen significaron, junto con La presa (ya publicado por Anagrama) la precoz y definitiva consagracion de Kenzaburo Oe en su propio pais, su ya irrenunciable papel de portavoz de su generacion. En el relato que da titulo al ...
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