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First pub. 1964. Author's most dramatic work, won him the prestigious Shincho Literary Prize. In the novel the narrator tells how he responds to the b...
A remarkable portrait of the inexpressible bond between a famous writer and his cipher of a son, this magnificent novel of startling candor is from a ...
Oe has written about the sorrows and satisfactions of being the father of a handicapped child, but nowhere has his writing been more personal than in ...
This is the story of a mother's grief. Her divorced husband has died ofancer and her sons have taken their own lives. To escape her sorrow anduilt, sh...
"[Kogito Choko] returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase rumored to hold documents revealing the details of his father's death duri...
The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested western Japan. Wh...
This first novel by Japan's most celebrated living writer recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village ...
Four Japanese stories focus on people experiencing the time of World War II. The emphasis is on human feelings of bewilderment and qualities of endura...
Four Short Novels
Kenzaburō Ōe was ten when American soldiers entered his mountain village during World War II, and his writing "reveals the tension and ambiguity for...
Late in his life, writer Kogito Choko reconnects with his estranged friend, the filmmaker Goro Hanawa. Goro's subsequent suicide causes Kogito to exam...
Seventeen, J
Two views of a world whose traditional values had been blown away: Seventeen, the story of a lonely boy who turns to a right-wing group for self-estee...
The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures
In this one celebratory volume, the reader is exposed to the free-ranging thoughts of one of the century's most brilliant minds--Kenzaburo Oe, winner ...
Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe takes readers from the forests of southern Japan to the washed-out streets of Berlin as he investigates the im...
Oe explores the private and public ramifications of life with Mori, his retarded son. It is a free-wheeling meditation on justice, responsibility, and...
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And Other War Stories
Childhood, family, and growing up experiences in Chicago; progressive education at the Parker School; enlistment and deployment to China during WWII; ...
Two Lectures