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„Aventura lui Kirino pe tarimul povestilor populare aduce aminte de romanele ei mai vechi, mai ales prin personajele feminine care, nedreptatite de iubitii lor, se opun conventiilor societatii si lupta impotriva nedreptatii.” (Booklist)

Premiul Nobel pentru Literatura 1994

In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone for his part in anti-American student protests. Takashi's return to Japan coincides with a local Korean supermarket magnate's offer to buy the brothers' ancestral storehouse, pitting the brothers against one another and dredging up family histories best forgotten.