A personal matter
(Book)

"Originally published as Kojinteki na taiken, copyright Kenzaburo Oë, 1964, by Shinchosa, Tokyo, Japan"--Verso t.p; this edition first published 1969.

Publisher description: Kenzaburō Ōe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. His most popular book, A PERSONAL MATTER is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child.