Death by Water by Kenzaburo Oe

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Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is internationally acclaimed for his groundbreaking, incisive examination of humanity’s struggle through modernity. In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and literary alter ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red trunk fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his father’s death during World War II: details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel.