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Ten years after recanting their teachings and abandoning their zealous and violent congregation, two men known only as the Patron and Guide of Humankind seek to overcome a radical faction while leading peaceful followers toward a new future. Reprint.

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9781843540809 | Atlantic Books, July 10, 2003, cover price $28.90 | About this edition: A decade before this story opens two men referred to as the Patron and Guide of mankind dissolve their influential religious movement.
9780802117380 | Grove Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Ten years after recanting their teachings and abandoning their zealous and violent congregation, two men known only as the Patron and Guide of Humankind seek to overcome a radical faction while leading peaceful followers toward a new future.

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9780802140456 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, January 1, 2004), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Ten years after recanting their teachings and abandoning their zealous and violent congregation, two men known only as the Patron and Guide of Humankind seek to overcome a radical faction while leading peaceful followers toward a new future.

The author presents an intimate portrait of his son, born with a brain deformity, and reflects on the challenges and pleasures of raising a handicapped person and the healing power of the family

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9784770020482 | Kodansha Amer Inc, November 1, 1996, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The author presents an intimate portrait of his son, born with a brain deformity, and reflects on the challenges and pleasures of raising a handicapped person and the healing power of the family

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9784770027337 | Kodansha Amer Inc, May 1, 2001, cover price $14.00

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At the age of twenty, Ma-chan, a young woman, is forced to redefine her family and her life when she finds herself the head of the household due to her father's acceptance of a visiting professorship at an American university

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9780802115973 | Reissue edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 1996), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: At the age of twenty, Ma-chen, a young woman, is forced to redefine her family and her life when she finds herself the head of the household due to her father's acceptance of a visiting professorship at an American university

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9780802135469 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: At the age of twenty, Ma-chan, a young woman, is forced to redefine her family and her life when she finds herself the head of the household due to her father's acceptance of a visiting professorship at an American university

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Product Description: This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.

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9781563241833 | M E Sharpe Inc, April 1, 1997, cover price $158.00 | About this edition: This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.

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9781563241840 | M E Sharpe Inc, April 1, 1997, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.

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9780873323437 | M E Sharpe Inc, June 1, 1986, cover price $158.00

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9781563245800 | Reissue edition (M E Sharpe Inc, April 1, 1997), cover price $47.95

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A novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author recounts the story of fifteen reform school boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime and their doomed attempt to build lives of self-respect, love, and valor. IP.

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9780714529974 | Marion Boyars, April 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A group of deliquent boys are abandoned in a remote village during the Korean war and manage to survive by stealing food and hunting, only to face the possibility of death when the villagers return

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A moving study of the Hiroshima bombing and its horrific aftermath by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature provides an eloquent account of the victims of the atomic blast, the efforts of caregivers, and the devastating struggle to come to terms with the tragedy. Reprint. NYT.

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9780802134646 | Grove Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A study of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath provides an account of the victims, the efforts of caregivers, and the struggle to come to terms with the tragedy

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After suffering a series of personal tragedies including the loss of her two sons, Marie Kuraki leaves her home in Japan searching for a way to understand her life and finds herself venerated as a saint in a remote Mexican village

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9784770019868 | Kodansha Amer Inc, April 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: After suffering a series of personal tragedies including the loss of her two sons, Marie Kuraki leaves her home in Japan searching for a way to understand her life and finds herself venerated as a saint in a remote Mexican village

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Product Description: In this one celebratory volume, the reader is exposed to the free-ranging thoughts of one of the century's most brilliant minds--Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature--who offers his message for mankind as well as a selection of his most penetrating essays on themes varying from Hiroshima to the state of modern fiction...read more

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9784770019806 | Kodansha Amer Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In this one celebratory volume, the reader is exposed to the free-ranging thoughts of one of the century's most brilliant minds--Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature--who offers his message for mankind as well as a selection of his most penetrating essays on themes varying from Hiroshima to the state of modern fiction.

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By John Bester (trans) and Kenzaburo Oe

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9784770004505 | Reprint edition (Kodansha Amer Inc, December 1, 1994), cover price $25.00

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9784770019653 | Reprint edition (Kodansha Amer Inc, October 15, 1994), cover price $14.00

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Product Description: In short stories, novellas, and novels, two major postwar Japanese novelists, Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo, have explored the alienated life of twentieth-century Japan with an unsparing eye and at times a savage sense of humour...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780674261808 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $31.50 | About this edition: In short stories, novellas, and novels, two major postwar Japanese novelists, Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo, have explored the alienated life of twentieth-century Japan with an unsparing eye and at times a savage sense of humour.

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