{"product_id":"kenzaburo-oe-a-personal-matter-9780802150615","title":"A Personal Matter","description":"Oe's most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times \"close to a perfect novel.\" In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child? Bird, the protagonist, is a young man of 27 with antisocial tendencies who more than once in his life, when confronted with a critical problem, has \"cast himself adrift on a sea of whisky like a besotted Robinson Crusoe.\" But he has never faced a crisis as personal or grave as the prospect of life imprisonment in the cage of his newborn infant-monster. Should he keep it? Dare he kill it? Before he makes his final decision, Bird's entire past seems to rise up before him, revealing itself to be a nightmare of self-deceit. The relentless honesty with which Oe portrays his hero -- or antihero -- makes Bird one of the most unforgettable characters in recent fiction.","brand":"Grove Atlantic","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53378224652630,"sku":"9780802150615-G","price":10.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780802150615_1.jpg?v=1778072496","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/kenzaburo-oe-a-personal-matter-9780802150615","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}