Those boys are abandoned by a village after the onset of a plague in this man's novel (*) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids.
One of this writer's stories describes a cancer victim who wears cellophane goggles and is titled "Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness." In another of his novels, the Korean Li teaches a group of boys to hunt birds. Those boys are abandoned by a village after the onset of a plague in this man's novel (*) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids. In his other novels, Mitsusaburo's friend hangs himself after sodomizing himself with a cucumber, while in another, Bird's son is born with a brain hernia. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Silent Cry whose novels like A Personal Matter are frequently inspired by his own mentally retarded son.
One of this writer's stories describes a cancer victim who wears cellophane goggles and is titled "Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness."
Kenzaburō Ōe