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| | 1. |  | A Personal Matter
from Grove Press
Price: $0.02
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The Magic Flute is not Mozart's greatest opera. Do you catch my drift? "A Personal Matter" is not Kenzaburo Oe's greatest novel, but it is definitely great. Like many of Dickens's novels, the conclusion seems too deliberately conclusive and somewhat forced. Until the last chapter, however, this is a... more info
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| | 3. |  | Seventeen and J: Two Novels
from Foxrock Books
Price: $5.58
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Seventeen and the two halves of J are three variations on a similar theme. In these stories, the protagonists are confronted with the realization that their private and public selves are irreconcilably different, and it is this schism that leads to the characters' self-destruction.
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| | 4. |  | The Silent Cry: A Novel
from Kodansha International
Price: $3.89
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Another one of Oe's powerful and violent tales about personal fate and national history and the interrelation of the two. The story is written and set in the 60s of the 20th, but its historical tentacles go back to 1860, a pivotal date in Japanese history and in the family history of the... more info
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| | 5. |  | A Quiet Life (Oe, Kenzaburo)
from Grove Press
Price: $3.89
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Simply put, to open this novel is to enter a world of doubt and self doubt where singularity and mundanity co-exist easily.
Ma-Chan a young woman of 20 is our narrator in this slim novel. While Ma-Chan's older brother has a handicap, he has a recognised gift for musical composition. Ma-Chan's... more info
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| | 6. |  | Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
from Grove Press
Price: $3.97
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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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| | 7. |  | Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
from Grove Press
Price: $3.14
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If you read for aesthetic pleasure or to carry yourself away to exotic realms, or just to seek time-filling diversion, avoid this book as you would a rabid dog. It's a tale bursting like an angry pustule with ugliness and pain. Take note that other reviewers praise the novelist's descriptive skills... more info
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| | 8. |  | Somersault (Oe, Kenzaburo)
from Grove Press
Price: $7.60
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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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