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A quiet life

Ōe, Kenzaburō, 1935-1998
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Blending memoir and fiction, A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-Chan, a young woman who at the age of twenty finds herself in an unusual family situation.
Main title:
A quiet life / Kenzaburo Oe ; translated from the Japanese by Kunioki Yanagishita and William Wetherall.
Imprint:
London : Picador, 1998.
Collation:
240p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: U.S.: Grove, 1996.Translation of: Shizuka-na seikatsu.
Awards:
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1994.
ISBN:
9780330353113 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION
Local class:
FICTION
Language:
EnglishJapanese
BRN:
273120
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