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Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for creating
an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a
disconcerting picture of the human predicament today. In Death by
Water, his recurring protagonist and literary alter-ego returns to
his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold
documents revealing the details of his father's death during WWII:
details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final,
novel. Since his youth, renowned novelist Kogito Choko planned to
fictionalize his father's fatal drowning in order to fully process
the loss. Stricken with guilt and regret over his failure to rescue
his father, Choko has long been driven to discover why his father
was boating on the river in a torrential storm. Though he remembers
overhearing his father and a group of soldiers discussing an
insurgent scheme to stage a suicide attack on Emperor Mikado, Choko
cannot separate his memories from imagination and his family is
hesitant to reveal the entire story. When the contents of the trunk
turn out to offer little clarity, Choko abandons the novel in
creative despair. Floundering as an artist, he's haunted by fear
that he may never write his tour de force. But when he collaborates
with an avant-garde theater troupe dramatizing his early novels,
Kogito is revitalized by revisiting his formative work and he finds
the will to continue investigating his father's demise. Diving into
the turbulent depths of legacy and mortality, Death by Water is an
exquisite examination of resurfacing national and personal trauma,
and the ways that storytelling can mend political, social, and
familial rifts.
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Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2015 |
Authors: |
Kenzaburo Oe
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Dimensions: |
229 x 165 x 41mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
432 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-2401-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-8021-2401-1 |
Barcode: |
9780802124012 |
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