Ōe, Kenzaburō,  1935- <br/><br/>
A personal matter /  [Book] / 
Kenzaburō Ōe ; translated from the Japanese by John Nathan. 
 - 1st Evergreen ed. 
 - New York :  Grove Weidenfeld,  c1982. 
 - x, 165 p. 
 - An Evergreen black cat book .
<br/><br/> Translation of: Kojinteki na taiken. 
<br/><br/> Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The Swedish Academy lauded Oe for his "poetic force [that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." His most popular book, A Personal Matter is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose Utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. “In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.”—Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0802150616 0394171411 9780802150615 0802142044 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sea-power.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>895.635 895.6 3 5 895.6 3 5