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Death by Water by Kenzaburo Oe; Deborah Boliver Boehm
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE An astonishing interweaving of myth, fantasy, history and autobiography, Kenzaburo Oe's Death by Water is the shimmering masterpiece of a Nobel Prize-winning author. For the first time in his long life, Nobel-laureate Kogito Choko is suffering fro ...Show more
Death by Water by Kenzaburo Oe; Deborah Boliver Boehm (translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
For the first time in his long life, Nobel-laureate Kogito Choko is suffering from writer's block. The book that he wishes to write would examine the turbulent relationship he had with his father, and the guilt he feels about being absent the night his father drowned in a storm-swollen river; but how to ...Show more
Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The honesty with which Oe portrays his hero - or antihero - makes Bird one of the most unforgettable characters in modern Japanese fiction.
The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Kogito is a writer, and is in his sixties when he rekindles a childhood friendship with his estranged brother-in-law Goro. Goro sends Kogito a number of cassette tapes onto which he has recorded reflections about their friendship. But one night, Goro's message takes a profoundly unsettling turn: 'I'm go ...Show more
The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. Selling their family home leads them to an inescapable confrontation with their family history. Their attempt to escape the influence of the city ends in failure as they realize that its tentacles extend to everything ...Show more
The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe; John Bester (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone fo ...Show more
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