More recent efforts include A Quiet Life and the science fiction effort The Treatment Tower.  
A childhood fascination with the novel Huck Finn sparked a desire in this individual to become a forest ranger, but only French classes were offered near his isolated village.  He mastered French and studied with a translator of Rabelais, wrote a thesis on Sartre, and won acclaim with his story "The Catch."  More recent efforts include A Quiet Life and the science fiction effort The Treatment Tower.  His first novel Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids did not directly deal with his son Hikari, who is a prominent composer despite severe birth defects.  FTP, name this author of A Personal Matter and The Silent Cry, the Japanese winner of the  Nobel in Literature in 1994.
A childhood fascination with the novel Huck Finn sparked a desire in this individual to become a forest ranger, but only French classes were offered near his isolated village.  
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