A quiet life
Serious and literary fiction, General fiction
Human-narrated audio
Summary
The Nobel laureate presents a fictional memoir. Ma-chan, a twenty-year-old woman, records events while at home in Japan as her parents spend six months in California. Ma-chan is responsible for her older, retarded but musically gifted brother Eeyore, whom she… dearly loves, and for her younger, more independent student brother. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language