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1	A Personal Matter more books like this by Kenzaburo OE Oe's most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times "close to a perfect novel." In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child? Bird, the protagonist, is a young man of 27 with antisocial tendencies who more than once ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £8.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids more books like this by Kenzaburo OE Oe's dark musings on moral failure have come to symbolize an alienated generation in postwar Japan. This novel recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime. When plague breaks out, the villagers flee, leaving the boys blockaded inside the empty village. The boys' brief, doomed attempt to ... see all copies from £3.07! new only from £7.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe, John Nathan (Translator) Kenzaburo Oe once again takes his brain-damaged son, Hikari, as his subject, in a book about Hikari's growth as a person and a composer, Oe's own writing and the responses to it by some of his supporters and critics, and his fascination with the writing of William Blake. see all copies from £1.75! new only from £4.07! \| first editions
4	The Crazy iris and other stories of the atomic aftermath more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe (Photographer) Edited by one of Japan's leading and internationally acclaimed writers, this collection of short stories was compiled to mark the fortieth anniversary of the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here some of Japan's best and most representative writers chronicle and re-create the impact of this tragedy on the daily lives of ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The silent cry more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested western Japan. While one brother tries to sort out the after-effects of a friend's suicide and the birth of a retarded son, the other embarks on a quixotic mission to incite an uprising among the local youth. Oe's ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £4.16! \| first editions
6	A quiet life. more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe Kenzaburo Oe is one of the most original and important writers of your time, and nowhere is his genius more evident than in A Quiet Life -- an uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction. A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a young woman who at the age of twenty gets caught up in an unusual family situation. Her father is ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £7.27! \| first editions
7	A Healing Family more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe A Healing Family, Kenzaburo Oe's first book since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, is an intimate portrait of the people closest to him. Above all, it is about his son Hikari. Hikari was born in 1963 with a growth on his brain so large it made him look as if he had two heads. His parents were told he might never be more than a "human ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £23.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe, John Nathan (Translator) These four novels display Oe's 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 ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	An Echo of Heaven more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator) This is the story of a mother's grief. Her divorced husband has died of cancer and her sons have taken their own lives. To escape her sorrow and guilt, she leaves Japan and travels to Mexico where she settles in a remote village. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.74! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Hiroshima notes. more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe's 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 ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £7.44! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Pinch Runner Memorandum more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe, Michael K Wilson (Translator) This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £14.56! \| first editions
12 view cover	Somersault more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe A Nobel Prizewinning Japanese writer tells the tale of two men known as Patron and Guide. Years ago, they led a religious cult that soured when a group of radicals within it threatened the world with apocalyptic visions. Now, Patron and Guide try to reach out once again, hoping to rebuild their movement. see all copies from £1.90! new only from £6.23! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Teach us to outgrow our madness : four short novels more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe Four stories which offer insights into Japanese society are contained in this work by the winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature. The title story is a semi-autobiographical account of a father coming to terms with his brain-damaged son. see all copies from £2.87! new only from £6.24! \| first editions
14 view cover	Seventeen & J more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe, Masao Miyoshi (Introduction by), Luk Van Haute (Translator) Here are two novels by Japan's Nobel Prize-winning author. In "Seventeen," a lost young man, raised in a country which falsifies its own history, is in the throes of becoming a right-wing activist and assassin. In "J," an increasingly isolated and psychotic youth takes up chikan, a game that involves sexually assaulting women on the crowded Tokyo ... see all copies from £7.11! new only from £11.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	Fire from the Ashes: Short Stories about Hiroshima and Nagasaki / more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe Nobel Prize Laureate Winner Kenzaburo Oe selects and introduces nine compelling stories by japanese writers on the A-bomb and its aftermath in Japanese society from 1945 to today. see all copies from £2.26! first editions
16	The catch, and other war stories more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe Oe's novella, THE CATCH, is included in this volume, and was the book for which he won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's equivalent of the Pulitzer. see all copies from £4.54! first editions
17 view cover	Cartas a Los Anos de Nostalgia by Kenzaburo OE Si toda la obra de O - premio Nobel de literatura de 1994 - puede definirse como un obsesivo retorno al restringido ncleo de los momentos esenciales de su vida y de la historia reciente de su pas, y en el afn de expresar y comprender todo su significado literal, social, alegrico y mtico, en esta novela, que es tambin una autobiografa abarcadora, ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £32.85! \| first editions
18	Teach us to outgrow our madness : four short novels more books like this by Kenzaburo Óe, John Nathan see all copies from £11.69! first editions
19 view cover	Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe In December 1994, on the acceptance of only the second Nobel Prize awarded to a Japanese writer, Kenzaburo Oe gave a speech that was a message for mankind: one that pledged his own faith in tolerance and human decency; in the renunciation of war; and in the healing power of art - the power to calm and purify. Other key addresses he has given ... see all copies from £11.06! first editions
20 view cover	Salto Mortal by OE Kenzaburo, Kenzaburo OE see all copies from £13.85! new only from £16.65!
21 view cover	Fire from the Ashes: Short Stories from Hiroshima and Nagasaki more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe (Editor) Nobel Prize Laureate Winner Kenzaburo Oe selects and introduces nine compelling stories by japanese writers on the A-bomb and its aftermath in Japanese society from 1945 to today. see all copies from £5.55! new only from £5.55!
22	Kaifukusuru Kazoku by Kenzaburo Oe see all copies from £19.37!
23 view cover	El Grito Silencioso more books like this by Kenzaburo OE El grito silencioso, una extraordinaria novela de Kenzaburo O, supuso un paso esencial en la consolidacin de su singular mundo narrativo. De hecho, ste era su libro ms conocido y mejor valorado en Occidente hasta que, en 1994, la concesin del premio Nobel despertara un creciente inters por el conjunto de su obra. La historia de dos hermanos, ... see all copies from £20.89! new only from £20.89!
24	Una Cuestion Personal - Compactos - by Kenzaburo OE see all copies from £21.80! new only from £21.80!
25	M/T to Mori No Fushigi No Monogatari by Kenzaburo Oe see all copies from £133.58!

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