Asbabun Nuzul Lengkap Pdf File here. By Kenzaburo Oe translated by Philip Gabriel 570pp, Atlantic, £16.99. The six-page prologue to Kenzaburo Oe's new novel, his first since being awarded the 1994 Nobel prize for literature, is a masterpiece of symbolic compression. It is the opening ceremony of a Tokyo exhibition of 'imaginary landscapes of the future'. The first new novel Oe has published since winning the Nobel Prize, Somersault is a magnificent story of the charisma of leaders, the danger of zealotry, and the. Kenzaburo Oe is internationally recognized as one of the world's finest writers, and his achievements have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Somersault, the first new.

A cult's apocalyptic endgameThe most recent works by Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe have tended to be readable, thinly veiled autobiographies featuring his mentally challenged son, Hikari. But his massive new novel, Somersault as ambitious as it is ambiguous focuses on the Japanese fascination with quasi-Christian, apocalyptic cults.