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.
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