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Kenzaburo Oe was ten when American soldiers entered his mountain village during World War II, and his writing “reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of the values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other…[His] heroes have been expelled from the certainty of childhood, into a world that bears no relation to their past. – Back cover
| Subjects: | Japan, Social life and customs, Fiction Kenzaburo Oe, Translations into English |
| Notes: | Short stories, including: The day he himself shall wipe my tears away, Prize stock, Teach us to outgrow our madness, Aghwee the sky monster |
| Description: | xxv, 261 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780802101334 |
| OCLC Number: | 3123624 |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Publisher: | Grove Press, Distributed by Random House, 1977, 1978, 1994 |
| Publication Place: | New York |
| Japanese Publication Date: | 1969 |
| English Publication Date: | 1977 |
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