Death by Water

Kenzaburō Ōe · 2009 CE · Novel · Japanese · Contemporary

The novelist Kogito Choko returns to the forested village in Shikoku where he grew up in order to write the novel of his father's drowning in 1945. He opens the old red leather trunk his father left, and finds it nearly empty. It is one of Ōe's last major novels.

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