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The Nobel Prize�winning �master of the bizarre plunges the reader into a world of tortured imagination� in this four-novella collection (Library Journal). In this startling quartet of his most provocative stories, the multiple prize-winning author of A Personal Matter reaffirms his reputation as �a supremely gifted writer� (The Washington Post). In The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, a self-absorbed narrator on his deathbed drifts off to the comforting strains of a cantata as he recalls a blistering childhood of militarism, sacrifice, humiliation, and revenge�a tale that is questioned by everyone who knew him. In Prize Stock, winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a black American flier is downed in a Japanese village during World War II, where the local children see him as some rare find�exotic and forbidden. In Aghwee the Sky Monster, the floating ghost of a baby inexplicably haunts a young man on the first day of his first job. And in the title story, a devoted father believes he is the only link between his mentally challenged son and reality. �[A] remarkable book.� �The Washington Post �?e is definitely one of the Modern Masters.� �Seattlepi.com (less)

The Nobel Prize�winning �master of the bizarre plunges the reader into a world of tortured imagination� in this four-novella collection (Library Journal). In this startling quartet of his most provocative stories, the multiple prize-winning (…more)