01231nam a2200205Ia 4500 20261001105558.0 260603s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und|| 9780330344357 23 895.635 OE Oe, Kenzaburo A Personal Matter / Kenzaburo Oe ; edited by John Nathan Nobel Prize Edition London : Picador Book ,1996 176 p. Kenzaburō 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. Literature Japanese Literature Nathan,John [Editor] RBK 68631 68631 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-03 0 895.635 OE G7926 2026-06-03 15:18:22 2026-06-03 RBK Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection