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When her father leaves Japan to accept a visiting professorship from an American university 20-year-old Ma-Chan finds herself suddenly the head of the household and the centre of family relationships that she must begin to redefine.Read More

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  • Amazon Review

    Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe has produced a quirky, introspective novel that uses autobiographical elements to tell the story of a writer's family and his rediscovery of his place therein. Written in the form of a diary, the story is told from the point of view of Ma-Chan, the daughter of a famous writer (identified only as "K") who has decamped to California as a university writer-in-residence. Ma-Chan is left in charge of her equally famous brother, an idiot savant who composes brilliant classical music. The mentally retarded brother, nicknamed Eeyore, has violent fits, periods of incontinence, and a troubling new sexual awareness. Like Faulkner's Benjy Compson, he is the moral center of the book, a touchstone and a catalyst for the muted events that carry the novel to its unpredictable close. Full of digressions on the cinema, modernist music, and the novels of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Oe's latest novel is a stylized, idiosyncratic confessional that only he could fashion.

  • 033035311X
  • 9780330353113
  • Kenzaburo Oe
  • 9 January 1998
  • Picador
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
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