| A Quiet Life Contributor(s): Oe, Kenzaburo (Author), Yanagishita, Kunioki (Translator), Wetherall, William (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0802135463 ISBN-13: 9780802135469 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1997 Annotation: "A Quiet Life" is narrated by Ma-chan, a young woman who at the age of 20 gets caught up in an unusual family situation. Her father is a famous novelist; her older brother is brain-damaged but possesses a gift for music; and her mother's life is devoted to caring for them both. When her father is offered a visiting professorship in an American university, Ma-chan finds herself at the center of family relationships that she must begin to redefine. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1200 |
| Series: OE, Kenzaburo |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.49" W x 8.25" (0.64 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kenzaburo Oe is one of the most original and important writers of your time, and nowhere is his genius more evident than in A Quiet Life -- an uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction. A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a young woman who at the age of twenty gets caught up in an unusual family situation. 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. |