Oe Kenzaburo: 18 books

This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.

PREMIO NOBEL PER LA LETTERATURA 1994 Altri premi: Premio Akutagawa 1958 Premio letterario Shinchosha 1964 Premio Tanizaki 1967 Premio Noma 1973 Premio Yomiuri 1982 Premio Jiro Osaragi (Asahi Shimbun) 1983 Legion d'onore 2002 La forza della fede e i pericoli del fanatismo, i misteri della spiritualità...

Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and literary alter-ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red...

Wise and illuminating, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, one of whom is mentally disabled. K's wife confronts...

This book won Japan's prestigious Kenzaburo Oe Prize. Simultaneous publication of paperback and e-book editions. Broad appeal across age groups. Translated from Japanese to English by Charles De Wolf Galleys (and e-galleys via Edelweiss) available in September. Digital...

This is the first English translation of the 1976 novel by Japan's most daring and innovative novelist. Kenzaburo Oe dispenses with the unity of voice often sought in the conventional realistic novel by forcing the reader to come to grips with one of the basic questions in modern literature: What is the novel?

The Silent Cry follows two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested Western Japan. After decades of separation, the reunited men are each preoccupied by their own personal crises. One brother grapples with the recent suicide of his dearest friend, the birth of his disabled...

Oe introduces Kogito Choko, a writer in his early sixties, as he rekindles a childhood friendship with his estranged brother-in-law, the renowned filmmaker Goro Hanawa. Goro sends Kogito a trunk of tapes he has recorded of reflections about their friendship, but as Kogito is listening one night, he hears...

This classic work of world literature by the 1994 Japanese Nobel laureate is a devastating and moving blend of memoir and fiction. An uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction, A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a twenty-year-old woman. Her father is a famous and...

The first new novel Oe has published since winning the Nobel Prize, Somersault is a magnificent story of the charisma of leaders, the danger of zealotry, and the mystery of faith.A decade before the story opens, two men referred to as the Patron and Guide of mankind were leaders of an influential religious...

PREMIO NOBEL PER LA LETTERATURA 1994 Altri premi: Premio Akutagawa 1958 Premio letterario Shinchosha 1964 Premio Tanizaki 1967 Premio Noma 1973 Premio Yomiuri 1982 Premio Jiro Osaragi (Asahi Shimbun) 1983 Legion d'onore 2002 È mattina presto e la luce dell’alba deposita un minuto pulviscolo...

From the Nobel Prize–winning author: “One of the great short novels of the 20th century” (The Wall Street Journal). Internationally acclaimed as one of the world’s most influential writers, Kenzaburō Ōe brings to the fore the post-WWII rage and anxiety of a decorous society in this...

The Nobel Prize–winning “master of the bizarre plunges the reader into a world of tortured imagination” in this four-novella collection (Library Journal). In this startling quartet of his most provocative stories, the multiple prize-winning author of A Personal Matter reaffirms his reputation...

PREMIO NOBEL PER LA LETTERATURA 1994 Altri premi: Premio Akutagawa 1958 Premio letterario Shinchosha 1964 Premio Tanizaki 1967 Premio Noma 1973 Premio Yomiuri 1982 Premio Jiro Osaragi (Asahi Shimbun) 1983 Legion d'onore 2002 Gli anni della nostalgia ruota intorno a Gii, un personaggio affascinante...