Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

Four Short Novels

Autori

• Kenzaburó Óe

Parametri

• 261 pagine
• 10 ore di lettura

• Giappone
• Letteratura Giapponese
• Narrativa
• Premio Nobel
• Racconti

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Prize Stock, the first of the novels included in Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, depicts the relationship between a Japanese boy and a black American airman captured during the second world war. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, the title story, is a semi-autobiographical account of a father coming to terms with his brain-damaged son. Aghwee The Sky Monster is about a young man's first job - chaperoning a banker's son. In The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, the narrator lies on his hospital bed eagerly waiting to die of cancer.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1989

(In brossura)