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Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Kenzaburo oe was awarded the nobel prize in literature for creating an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today. Kenzaburo oe was awarded the nobel prize in literature for creating an imagined world. We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. In the changeling, nobel prizewinning author kenzaburo oe takes readers from the forests of southern japan to the washedout streets of berlin as he investigates the impact our real and imagined pasts.
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