Publisher's Synopsis
Quiet Life is Kenzaburo Oe's most lucid and easy-to-read work. The book is made up of six short stories, including The Quiet Life, The Abandoned Child of the Planet, Stalker, The Automata's Nightmare, The Sorrow of a Novel and Family Diary. Well-structured and an autobiographical short story. Kenzaburo Oe married Yugali, the eldest daughter of film director Mansaku Itami, at the age of 25. In 1963, the two gave birth to their eldest son, Hikaru Oe, who was born with a deformed head, which affected his IQ. This book, published in 1990, can be regarded as a work that emerged from his cocoon after precipitation.
