KENZABURO OE
THE CHANGELING
New York, Grove Press. 2010, First Edition. (ISBN: 0802119360) Hardcover, 8 Vo.. Book, black cloth, 468 pages, fine copy in fine dust jacket, full number line, d.j. not clipped, in protective mylar, as new.translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. In 1997, Juzo Itami, one of Japan's most successful film directors, jumped to his death in Tokyo. Nobel laureate Oe (Hiroshima Notes) was Itami's brother-in-law, and he transposes Itami's suicide, under a fictional disguise, into a dazzling and elaborate maze of memories and meditations centering on the suicide of film director Goro Hanawa. Fine/Fine.

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Keywords: 0802119360 Suicide -- Fiction. , Paramilitary Forces -- Fiction. ,Japan -- Fiction. , Japan.