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Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Paperback - 1994
by Kenzaburo Oe; John Nathan (Translator)
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Deep one night he was trimming his nose that would never walk again into sunlight atop living legs, busily feeling every hair with a Rotex rotary nostril clipper as if to make his nostrils as bare as a monkey's, when suddenly a man, perhaps escaped from the mental ward in the same hospital or perhaps a lunatic who happened to be passing, with a body abnormally small and meagre for a man save only for a face as round as a Dharma's and covered in hair, sat down on the edge of his bed and shouted, foaming,-What in God's name are you?
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- Title Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our
- Author Kenzaburo Oe; John Nathan (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 261
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grove Press, New York
- Date 1994-10-13
- ISBN 9780802151858 / 080215185X
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.24 x 5.52 x 0.77 in (20.93 x 14.02 x 1.96 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Japan - Social life and customs
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 76054582
- Dewey Decimal Code 895.635
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