A Personal Matter

Name: A Personal Matter
Author: Oe Kenzaburo

by Oe Kenzaburo

Novel of a man confronting paternity and disability in postwar Japan

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Oe Kenzaburo

Nobel Prize-winning novelist whose work grapples with war, disability, and Japan's postwar identity. His deeply personal fiction, particularly A Personal Matter, established him as Japan's foremost voice of moral conscience.

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