A Personal Matter

Description

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 most popular book, A Personal Matter is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose Utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. “In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.”–Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Kenzaburo Oe,John Nathan (Translator)
Published: 01/13/1994
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802150615
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 8.20″ L x 5.40″ W