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Death by Water
Michael Innes
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Description for Death by Water
Paperback. An astonishing interweaving of myth, fantasy, history and autobiography, Kenzaburo Oe's Death by Water is the shimmering masterpiece of a Nobel Prize-winning author. Translator(s): Boehm, Deborah Boliver. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 314.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE An astonishing interweaving of myth, fantasy, history and autobiography, Kenzaburo Oe's Death by Water is the shimmering masterpiece of a Nobel Prize-winning author. For the first time in his long life, Nobel-laureate Kogito Choko is suffering from writer's block. The book that he wishes to write would examine the turbulent relationship he had with his father, and the guilt he feels about being absent the night his father drowned in a storm-swollen river; but how to write about a man he never really knew? When his ... Read more
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE An astonishing interweaving of myth, fantasy, history and autobiography, Kenzaburo Oe's Death by Water is the shimmering masterpiece of a Nobel Prize-winning author. For the first time in his long life, Nobel-laureate Kogito Choko is suffering from writer's block. The book that he wishes to write would examine the turbulent relationship he had with his father, and the guilt he feels about being absent the night his father drowned in a storm-swollen river; but how to write about a man he never really knew? When his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857895486
SKU
V9780857895486
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About Michael Innes
Considered one of Japan's leading post-war writers, Kenzaburo Oe has won almost every major international honour, including the 1989 Prix Europalia and the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Tokyo.
Reviews for Death by Water
Kenzaburo Oe's poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.
Nobel Prize Committee
Here is someone with astonishingly free access to his own past and his own thinking, finding insight and exhilaration in the most unlikely places
Observer
No Japanese novelist has ever ... Read more
Nobel Prize Committee
Here is someone with astonishingly free access to his own past and his own thinking, finding insight and exhilaration in the most unlikely places
Observer
No Japanese novelist has ever ... Read more