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Kenzaburo Oé (Kenzaburo Oe / Kenzaburô Ôe / Kenzaburo Óe / Oe, Kenzaburo / Óe, Kenzaburo / Oé, Kenzaburo / Oë, Kenzaburo)
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The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic AftermathISBN 0802151841 (0-8021-5184-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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- The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath: ISBN 0394620755 (0-394-62075-5)
Softcover, Grove Press - The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath: ISBN 0394549449 (0-394-54944-9)
Hardcover, Grove Press - The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath: ISBN 0802112129 (0-8021-1212-9)
Hardcover, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated - The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath: ISBN 0802151841 (0-8021-5184-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
- The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath: ISBN 0394620755 (0-394-62075-5)
Hiroshima NotesISBN 0714530255 (0-7145-3025-5)
Softcover, Boyars Publishers, Ltd., Marion
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hiroshima Notes'Book summary:Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oes account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the valiant efforts of those who cared for them, both immediately after the atomic blast and in the years that follow, reveals the horrific extent of the devastation. It is a heartrending portrait of a ravaged city — the “human face in the midst of nuclear destruction.[via]
Nip the Buds, Shoot the KidsISBN 0802134637 (0-8021-3463-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids'Book summary:A novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author recounts the story of fifteen reform school boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime and their doomed attempt to build lives of self-respect, love, and valor. IP. [via]
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A Personal MatterISBN 0802150616 (0-8021-5061-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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A Quiet LifeISBN 0802135463 (0-8021-3546-3)
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Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!ISBN 080213968X (0-8021-3968-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!'Book summary:Wise and illuminating, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, one of whom is mentally disabled. K's wife confronts him with the information that this child, Eeyore, has been doing disturbing things -- behaving aggressively, asserting that he's dead, even brandishing a knife at his mother -- and K, given to retreating from reality into abstraction, looks for answers in his lifelong love of William Blake's poetry. As K struggles to understand his family and assess his responsibilities within it, he must also reevaluate himself -- his relationship with his own father, the political stances he has taken, the duty of artists and writers in society. A remarkable portrait of the inexpressible bond between this father and his damaged son, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! is the work of an unparalleled writer at his sparkling best.[via]More editions of Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!:
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SomersaultISBN 0802140459 (0-8021-4045-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Somersault'Book summary:Writing a novel after having won a Nobel Prize for Literature must be even more daunting than trying to follow a brilliant, bestselling debut. In Somersault (the title refers to an abrupt, public renunciation of the past), Kenzaburo Oe has himself leapt in a new direction, rolling away from the slim, semi-autobiographical novel that garnered the 1994 Nobel Prize (A Personal Matter) and toward this lengthy, involved account of a Japanese religious movement. Although it opens with the perky and almost picaresque accidental deflowering of a young ballerina with an architectural model, Somersault is no laugh riot. Oe's slow, deliberate pace sets the tone for an unusual exploration of faith, spiritual searching, group dynamics, and exploitation. His lavish, sometimes indiscriminate use of detail can be maddening, but it also lends itself to his sobering subject matter, as well as to some of the most beautiful, realistic sex scenes a reader is likely to encounter. --Regina Marler [via]
Teach Us to Outgrow Our MadnessISBN 0714530484 (0-7145-3048-4)
Softcover, Boyars Publishers, Ltd., Marion
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness : Four Short Novels'Book summary:These four novels display Oes passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other. The earliest of his novels included here, Prize Stock, reveals the strange relationship between a Japanese boy and a captured black American pilot in a Japanese village. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness tells of the close relationship between an outlandishly fat father and his mentally defective son, Eeyore. Aghwee the Sky Monster is about a young mans first job — chaperoning a bankers son who is haunted by the ghost of a baby in a white nightgown. The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away is the longest piece in this collection and Oes most disturbing work to date. The narrator lies in a hospital bed waiting to die of a liver cancer that he has probably imagined, wearing a pair of underwater goggles covered with dark cellophane.[via]More editions of Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness:
- Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: ISBN 080215185X (0-8021-5185-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr - Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: ISBN 0714526487 (0-7145-2648-7)
Hardcover, Boyars Publishers, Ltd., Marion - Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness : Four Short Novels: ISBN 0714530484 (0-7145-3048-4)
Softcover, Boyars Publishers, Ltd., Marion
- Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: ISBN 080215185X (0-8021-5185-X)
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