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A Quiet Life
A Quiet Life
Author: Kenzaburo Oe, Kunioki Yanagishita (Translator), William Wetherall (Translator)
Kenzaburo Oe is one of the most original and important writers of our time, and nowhere is his genius more evident than in his mastery of the Japanese "I"-novel -- that uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, memoir with fiction, the reconstruction of history with the evocation of the inner life. — "A Quiet Life" is narrated by Ma-Chan, a yo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780802115973
ISBN-10: 0802115977
Publication Date: 1996
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Grove Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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A blend of memoir and fiction from the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature Kenzaburo Oe. Narrated by Ma-chan, a young Japanese woman whose father is a novelist and older brother is a kind of autistic savant with a talent for music


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