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About the author

Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935 in Ose, a mountain village on Japan’s Shikoku Island. He graduated in French literature from Tokyo University and became a full-time writer in 1959. He has won many international literary honors, including the 1989 Prix Europalia and the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Product details

• Authors: Kenzaburo Oe, Oe Kenzaburo
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2003
• EAN: 9780802140456
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4045-6
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 229 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 757 g
• Series: Oe, Kenzaburo
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, Fiction in translation, c 1990 to c 1999, Relating to adulthood, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Asian / Japanese