Rouse Up O Young Men Of The New Age - Tapa dura

This is a virtuoso novel of extraordinary power that returns to the themes that haunt so much of Oe's work: family, responsibility, writing and the experience of being a parent to a disabled child.K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, one of whom has been, since birth, mentally disabled.A highly cerebral man who often retreats from everyday life into his own world of abstraction - usually the poetry of William Blake - K is confronted by his wife with the reality that his child, Eeyore, has been doing disturbing things: behaving aggressively, asserting he's dead, even brandishing a knife at his mother. K's struggle to understand his family and his place within it, leads him to a startling re-evaluation of himself, his attitudes and his responsibilities. Bittersweet, inspiring and sometimes hilarious, Rouse Up is the work of an unparalleled writer at his dazzling best.

Kenzaburo Oe has won the Prix Europalia and the Nobel Prize for Literature, among many other awards. His translated works include Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, A Quiet Life, Hiroshima Notes and A Personal Matter. He lives in Tokyo with his wife and three children