01183nam a2200181Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200190007610000190009524500620011425000240017626000340020030000110023452006910024565000160093665000240095270000250097620261001105558.0260603s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780330344357  223a895.635 OE  aOe, Kenzaburo  2aA Personal Matterc/ Kenzaburo Oe ; edited by John Nathan  aNobel Prize Edition  aLondonb: Picador Bookc,1996  a176 p.  aKenzaburō Ōe, 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 Ōe 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 personal 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.  a Literature  aJapanese Literature  aNathan,John [Editor]