The Music of Light: The Extraordinary Story of Hikari and Kenzaburo Oe

by Lindsley Cameron

Book Overview

Hikari Oe was born with a herniated brain, a condition so severe that the only treatment available was an operation that would save his life but leave him permanently brain-injured. Now thirty-four,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684824094
• ISBN13: 9780684824093
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

This has probably changed many lives

This is the best book I've read this year. It covers so much: a family's love for their brain damaged child and their commitment to the grueling, challenging years raising him in a society that wants him to just disappear. It is at once literary criticism, classical music criticism, cultural commentary, biography, pschology, psychiatry, medicine and a touchingly told love story between man and son. By the end of this book you will have fallen in love with Hikari the sweet savant from Kobe and his wonderful father, Kenzaburo.