japanese literature

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Author: Oe Kenzaburo

  • An echo of heaven

    Translation of a Japanese novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author in which a narrator tells the story of Marie Kuraki, a woman who embarks upon a complicated quest for spiritual peace after her life is rocked by a series of personal tragedies.

  • Teach us to outgrow our madness : four short novels

    Kenzaburo Oe was ten when American soldiers entered his mountain village during World War II, and his writing “reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of the values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other…[His] heroes have been expelled from the certainty of childhood,…