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Book review: Death by Water

WATER is the metaphor and the phrase “taken by the current” is the recurring motif for going away and never returning, as happened to his fictitious father who drowned during a stormy night, in this autobiographical novel by Nobel prize winning Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe.

Book review: Death by Water

Sat, 06 Aug, 2016 - 01:00

Review: James Lawless

Kenzaburo Oe

Atlantic Books, €23.50

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