Quiet life
by Oe, Kenzaburo
, Shizuka na seikatsu. Edition statement:1st pbk. ed. Published by : Grove Press, (New York :) Physical details: 240 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN:0802135463 (pbk.). Year: 1996| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| Fiction | Book Cart | Oe (Browse shelf) | Available | FUND: Book Fund | 80761 |
A Quiet Life is 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 to the care of them both. Ma-chan and her younger brother find themselves emotionally on the outside of this oddly constructed nuclear family. But when her father accepts a visiting professorship from an American university, Ma-chan finds herself suddenly the head of the household and at the center of family relationships that she must begin to redefine.
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