TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oe, Kenzaburo 
AU  - Nathan,John [Editor]
TI  - A Personal Matter
SN  - 9780330344357
U1  - 895.635 OE 23
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London
PB  - : Picador Book
KW  -  Literature
KW  - Japanese Literature
N2  - 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
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