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| | 1. |  | A Personal Matter
from Grove Press
Price: $10.40
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This book is a perfect example of how good writing conquers all. It ultimately doesn't matter whether the subject is gruesome, the main character completely despicable, the culture foreign or how dated the material is (people say things like "groovy"). How much of the beguiling effect is owed to the... more info
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| | 3. |  | Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
from Grove Press
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The bizaare, dark, and somewhat tragic tale of a group of delinquent boys taken to a secluded mountain village during World War II, then abandoned by the villagers when a mysterious plague strikes...
I found the relationship between the narrator and his younger brother very moving. In some... more info
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| | 5. |  | Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
from Grove Press
Price: $11.05
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This is my fifth Oe novel, and I am always surprised at how one theme manifests in myriad fascinating plots. However, I am not surprised that he was the Nobel laureate in literature for 1994. Oe's writing is dominated by his decidedly masculine presence, but never loses itself in it. His descriptive... more info
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| | 6. |  | The Silent Cry: A Novel
from Kodansha International
Price: $11.90
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The American edition of Oe's novel may be called "The Silent Cry," but a more accurate translation of the title would be "Football in the Year 1860 [or the Man'an era]," the year Ii Naosuke, famous for brokering a commercial treaty with the U.S., was assassinated by a group of samurai loyal to the... more info
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| | 7. |  | Hiroshima Notes
from Grove Press
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Sure to please american expectations as to what the contemporary Japanese are like. But its just propaganda written to order for a foreign market and its diseased media. A vulgar soapbox sermon. Elitist and condescending. In fact the commemoration of the BOMBING of Pearl Harbor was a very festive... more info
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| | 8. |  | A Quiet Life (Oe, Kenzaburo)
from Grove Press
Price: $9.60
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Shizuka na seikatsu or A Quiet Life by Oe Kenzaburo, is a good solid read. At first the story starts out very slow and doesn't really pick up the pace until the last section called, Diary At Home. But the in depth fleshing out of the two principal characters, Machan and Eeyore, more then compensate... more info
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| | 9. |  | Somersault
Price: $6.49
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This book is beautiful. It's not fast-pased; it's not thrilling; it's not edge-of-your-seat exciting. But it is beautiful. The writing is poetic and I found myself, as a writer, inspired and transfixed by the prose.
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