A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe - ISBN: 9780802150615
Paperback
A father’s Utopian dream shattered by the birth of a brain-damaged son.

A Personal Matter

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  • Paperback

    165 pages

  • Release Date

    13 January 1994

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Summary

Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The Swedish Academy lauded Oe for his “poetic force [that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.”

His mo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780802150615
ISBN-10:0802150616
Author:Kenzaburo Oe
Publisher:Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Imprint:Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:165
Release Date:13 January 1994
Weight:248g
Dimensions:23mm x 209mm x 141mm
Series:OE, Kenzaburo
About The Author

Kenzaburo Oe

His prolific body of work has won almost every major international honor, including the 1989 Prix Europalia and the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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