A Quiet Life Author:Kenzaburo Oe At the age of twenty, Ma-Chen, a young woman, is forced to redefine her family and her life when she finds herself the head of the household due to her father's acceptance of a visiting professorship at an American university. Tour.
A blend of memoir and fiction from the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature Kenzaburo Oe. Narrated by Ma-chan, a young Japanese woman whose father is a novelist and older brother is a kind of autistic savant with a talent for music