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A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe. It's short, it's gripping, it's devastating. Oe won a nobel prize for it, so you can't go wrong there.
by dawg- 6y ago
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe. It's short, it's gripping, it's devastating. Oe won a nobel prize for it, so you can't go wrong there.
- WaltPurvis 6y agoQuibble: One is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for an entire body of work, not just a single novel; Oe wrote many other highly regarded novels in the thirty years between publishing A Personal Matter in 1964 and winning the Nobel Prize in 1994.