A Quiet Life - Oe, Kenzaburo
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A Quiet Life is 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 she must begin to redefine.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780802135469 |
Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
Imprint: | Grove Press |
Pub date: | 22 Jan 1998 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 256 |
Weight: | 295g |
Height: | 210mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 17mm |