Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
“Rouse Up is a series of linked, meditative stories that examine Nobel laureate Oe’s changing relationship with his adolescent brain-damaged son through the prism…
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Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
“[A] remarkable book. . . . Oe is a supremely gifted writer (and fortunate in having found Nathan as a translator.)” –Ivan Gold, The…
keep readingThe Silent Cry
Now back in print, a modern classic by Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe, praised as “a major feat of the imagination.” —Times (UK)
keep readingA Quiet Life
“[These] ordinary lives . . . are movingly illuminated . . . portraits drawn with affection, insight and that wry humor . . ….
keep readingA Personal Matter
“In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.” –Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor
keep readingNip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
“An amazing achievement . . . Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids has much in common with both The Lord of the Flies and…
keep readingHiroshima Notes
“Hiroshima Notes traces the struggle of the novelist Kenzaburo Oe to reach the deepest lessons of the bombing. His pieces are crowded with the…
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Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe’s new novel is a finely woven masterpiece about a writer who searches for the truth behind his father’s death…
keep readingThe Crazy Iris and Other Stories from the Atomic Aftermath
“In compiling this anthology I have come to realize anew that the short stories included herein are”a means for stirring our imaginative powers to…
keep readingThe Changeling
“It is a richly imagined, complex story full of the oddity, irony, and existential angst that have long been at the heart of Oe’s…
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