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A Personal Matter (Reprint Edition) by John Nathan (Translator), Kenzaburo Oë, Kenzaburō Ōe, Paul S. (Translator) Mackintosh, Maki (Translator) Sugiyama Paperback, 165 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-8021-5061-6 / 0802150616 ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-5061-5 / 9780802150615 Oe’s most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times close to a perfect novel.” In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child? Bird, the protagonist, is a young man of 2 |