Kenzaburo Oe, Author, William Wetherall, Translator, Kunioki Yanagishita, Translator Grove/Atlantic $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1597-3
Like Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994, K-Chan, the character at the heart of this novel, is an internationally renowned Japanese novelist. His story pits the quest for individual identity against the measure of selflessness...
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Kenzaburo Oe, Author, John Nathan, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by John Nathan. Grove $24 (259p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1710-6
Writing once again with depth and passion about his relationship with his brain-damaged son, the Nobel laureate transforms his musings into a full-blown narrative that becomes a thoughtful yet provocative study of the nature of human relationships,...
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Kenzaburo Oe, Author, Deborah Boliver Boehm, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. Grove $24 (468p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1936-0
In 1997, Juzo Itami, one of Japan's most successful film directors, jumped to his death in Tokyo. Nobel laureate Oe (Hiroshima Notes
) was Itami's brother-in-law, and he transposes Itami's suicide, under a fictional disguise, into a...
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Kenzaburo Oe, Author, Toshi Yonezawa, Translator, David L. Swain, Translator Marion Boyars Publishers $22.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7145-3007-9
Japanese novelist Oe, who won a Nobel Prize in 1994, wrote these searching essays between 1963 and 1965, when he made frequent visits to the rebuilt city of Hiroshima and interviewed survivors. The collection, now reissued on the 50th anniversary of
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Kenzaburo Oe, Author, Maki Sugiyama, Translator, Paul St John Mackintosh, Translator Marion Boyars Publishers $22.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-7145-2997-4
Oe, who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, was just 23 in 1958, when he published this wrenching first novel in Japan. From the opening paragraph's description of a river ``bearing away at tremendous speed the corpses of dogs, rats, and cats,''
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Kenzaburo Oe, Author, Philip Gabriel, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Grove $29.95 (720p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1738-0
Nobelist Oe's giant new novel is inspired by the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which released sarin gas in Tokyo's subway system in 1995. Ten years before the novel begins, Patron and Guide, the elderly leaders of Oe's fictional cult, discover, to
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Kenzaburo Oe, Author, S. Shaw, Editor, Stephen Snyder, Translator Kodansha International (JPN) $17 (146p) ISBN 978-4-7700-2048-2
Oe sets out here to document the life and contribution to the family of his son, Hikari, born in 1963 with a major malformation of his brain. Successfully operated on but left with residual brain damage, Hikari, who needs constant supervision,...
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Kenzaburo Oe, Author, Margaret Mitsutani, Translator Kodansha International (JPN) $25 (0p) ISBN 978-4-7700-1986-8
A preponderance of symbolism weighs down Oe's first novel to appear stateside since he won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. K., the author's double, has been asked to write the story of an acquaintance of his, Marie Kuraki, a woman of great...
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Kenzaburo Oe, trans. from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. Grove, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2401-2
Layered and reflexive, Nobel winner Oe’s (The Changeling) novel concerns itself with an elderly writer, Kogito Choko, whose inability to write “the drowning novel,” a fictional account of his father’s death by drowning, threatens both his health and
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