Death by Water by Kenzaburo Oe
An astonishing interweaving of myth, fantasy, history and autobiography, Kenzaburo Oe's Death by Water is the shimmering masterpiece of a Nobel Prize-winning author.
No Japanese novelist has ever written more brilliantly than Oe about the division that exists in the soul of his country* Daily Telegraph *
Here is someone with astonishingly free access to his own past and his own thinking, finding insight and exhilaration in the most unlikely places * Observer *
Kenzaburo Oe's poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today. * Nobel Prize Committee *
Here is someone with astonishingly free access to his own past and his own thinking, finding insight and exhilaration in the most unlikely places * Observer *
Kenzaburo Oe's poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today. * Nobel Prize Committee *
Considered one of Japan's leading post-war writers, Kenzaburo Oe has won almost every major international honour, including the 1989 Prix Europalia and the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Tokyo.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857895455 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857895451 |
| Title | Death by Water |
| Author | Kenzaburo Oe |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2015-12-03 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for The Man Booker Prize 2016 (UK) |
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