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100			_aOe, Kenzaburo
245		2	_aA Personal Matter _c/ Kenzaburo Oe ; edited by John Nathan
250			_aNobel Prize Edition
260			_aLondon _b: Picador Book _c,1996
300			_a176 p.
520			_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.
650			_a Literature
650			_aJapanese Literature
700			_aNathan,John [Editor]
942			_cRBK
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