A personal matter / [Book] / Kenzaburō Ōe ; translated from the Japanese by John Nathan.

By:

Ōe, Kenzaburō, 1935-

Contributor(s):

Nathan, John

Material type: Text

TextSeries: An Evergreen black cat bookPublication details: New York : Grove Weidenfeld, c1982.Edition: 1st Evergreen edDescription: x, 165 pISBN:

0802150616
0394171411
9780802150615
0802142044

Subject(s):

Sea-power

DDC classification:

895.635
895.6 3 5
895.6 3 5

Other classification:

895.635

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 2nd Floor	895.635 OE-P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		52246
Books	Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 2nd Floor	359.03 TIL-S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		51908

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Translation of: Kojinteki na taiken.

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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