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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 2 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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Nobelprijsbibliotheek - 5: Het eigen lot, Kenzaburō Ōe, M. Marshall-van Wieringen
- Language
- Released
- 2004
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- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €4.39
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- Language
- Dutch
- Publisher
- Meulenhoff
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 235
- ISBN10
- 9029076135
- ISBN13
- 9789029076135
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Family, Classics, Friendship, 20th century, Children, Literary Fiction, Japan, Diseases, Japanese Literature, Fate, Nobel prize, Father, Bestsellers, Childbirth, People with Disabilities, Responsibility, Pink October, Fatherhood, Nobel Prize in Literature, Physical Disability, Japanese people
- First published
- 1964
- Original title
- Kodžintekina taiken
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
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- 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 2 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.