A dark bildungsroman by this author depicts a group of boys abandoned in a village during a plague in World War II.
One novella by this author depicts the son of a failed conspirator against the Japanese government who thinks he's dying of liver cancer. That story which satirizes Mishima's attack on the Shield society is titled "The Day He Himself Shall Wash My Tears Away." A dark bildungsroman by this author depicts a group of boys abandoned in a village during a plague in World War II. The irresponsible dreamer Bird urges doctors to allow his infant son, born with a brain hernia, to die in another novel by this author. FTP identify this Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author of Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids and A Personal Matter.
One novella by this author depicts the son of a failed conspirator against the Japanese government who thinks he's dying of liver cancer.
Kenzaburo Oe