A Quiet Life - Paperback

A Quiet Life is an uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction. A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a twenty-year-old woman. Her father is a famous and fascinating novelist; her older brother, though severely brain damaged, possesses an almost magical gift for musical composition; and her mother's life is devoted to the care of them both. Ma-chan and her younger brother find themselves emotionally on the outside of this oddly constructed nuclear family. But when her father accepts a visiting professorship from an American university, Ma-chan finds herself suddenly the head of the household and at the center of family relationships that she must begin to redefine.

• | Author: Kenzaburo Oe
• | Publisher: Grove Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 08, 1997
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0802135463
• | ISBN-13: 9780802135469