10 Asian authors you need to know: the Man Asian Literary Prize longlist

7. “The Changeling,” by Kenzaburo Oe

Japanese Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe takes the real-life suicide of film director Juzo Itami (who was also Oe's close friend and brother-in-law) and spins around it a roman à clef that takes the main characters back to their past and their previous entanglement with a right-wing paramilitary group.

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