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A Quiet Life

Kenzaburo Oe

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 Details

  • Publisher: Grove Press
  • Publish Date: Dec 8th, 1997
  • Pages: 256
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.25in - 5.49in - 0.68in - 0.64lb
  • EAN: 9780802135469
  • Categories: LiteraryFamily Life - General