Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Daily Dose


From Death by Water, by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm

STARTLING WORDS

“My mother’s startling words -- ‘Then he’ll most likely become a novelist!’ -- put down deep, spreading roots inside me, and the fact that my close family members had found the notion so amusing simply added to its power.”

From Chapter One

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