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A Quiet Life
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Series: OE, Kenzaburo
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.00
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ISBN10: 0802135463
ISBN13: 9780802135469
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Dec 8 1997
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.49 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780802135469
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Dec 8 1997
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.49 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
A Quiet Life is an uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction. A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a twenty-year-old woman. 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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