Death By Water Kenzaburo Oe Deborah Boliver Boehm by Kenzaburo Oe, Deborah Boliver Boehm 9780857895486, 0857895486 instant download after payment.

Kenzaburo Oe's shimmering masterpiece revisits a father’s life and death in an astonishing blend of myth, fantasy, history and autobiography. Translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm.

For the first time in his long life, Kogito Choko is suffering from writer’s block. The book he wants to write would examine his turbulent relationship with his father, and the guilt he feels about the night his father drowned. But how to write about a man he never really knew? His estranged sister offers a potential solution - she has in her possession a mysterious old red trunk, the contents of which could unlock the many secrets of the man who disappeared from their lives decades before.

"Pensive novel, at once autobiographical and philosophical...part of the reader’s task is to accommodate Oe’s vagueness and misdirection to arrive at a crafty ending, embracing twists and turns and plot points that are, among other things, “radical and potentially scandalous."... In other words, it’s vintage Oe: provocative, doubtful without being cynical, elegant without being precious." - Kirkus Reviews

Kenzaburō Ōe is considered one of Japan's leading post-war writers. Though he lives in Tokyo, Ōe’s novels, short stories and essays are strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory. He has won almost every major international honour including the 1989 Prix Europalia and the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature and he was shortlisted, for his entire body of work, for The Man Booker International Prize 2005.