Oe, Kenzaburo
Quiet life A quiet life Kenzaburo Oe ; translated from the Japanese by Kunioki Yanagishita and William Wetherall. - 1st pbk. ed. - New York : Grove Press, c1996. - 240 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
0802135463 (pbk.)
Oe 2
Quiet life A quiet life Kenzaburo Oe ; translated from the Japanese by Kunioki Yanagishita and William Wetherall. - 1st pbk. ed. - New York : Grove Press, c1996. - 240 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
0802135463 (pbk.)
Oe 2