While wandering with his mistress Himiko this novel's main character encounters his old friend Kikuhiko, whom he had long ago betrayed and after whom he has named his child.
At one point in this work, while the main character is drunk and with a former girlfriend, he hears an inner voice saying, "Butcher her and fuck the corpse!" While visiting his wife in the hospital, the main character of this novel brings her grapefruit, forgetting that she hates it, for which she scolds him, asking "do you ever think seriously of anyone but yourself?" Another character in this novel owns a scarlet MG sports car, and is part white because her grandfather had married a Russian girl from Vladivostok; that character encourages the main character to run away to Africa with her, but at the end of this novel he refuses to do so. While wandering with his mistress Himiko this novel's main character encounters his old friend Kikuhiko, whom he had long ago betrayed and after whom he has named his child. For ten points, identify this novel in which Bird learns to live with his brain-damaged son, written by Kenzaburo Oe.
At one point in this work, while the main character is drunk and with a former girlfriend, he hears an inner voice saying, "Butcher her and fuck the corpse!"
A Personal Matter