| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Access |
Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
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 fascinating novelist; her older brother, though severely brain-damaged, possesses an almost magical gift for musical composition; and her mother's life is devoted to the care of them both. Ma-chan and her younger brother find themselves emotionally on the outside of this oddly constructed nuclear family. But when her father accepts a visiting professorship from an American university, Ma-chan finds herself suddenly the head of the household and at the center of family relationships that "are movingly illuminated" ( The New York Times ) through Oe's unique and unpredictable genius. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
FICTION / Literary.
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Families -- Japan -- Fiction.
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Japan -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Domestic fiction.
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| Added Author |
Yanagishita, Kunioki.
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Wetherall, William, 1941-
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| Added Title |
Shizuka na seikatsu. English
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| Other Form: |
Other version: Ōe, Kenzaburō, 1935- Quiet life. New York : Grove Press, 1996, c1990. 0802115977 (DLC)96025795 |
| ISBN |
9780802195425 (e-pub) |
| Standard No. |
9780802195425 |
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