This author used his son Hikari as the basis for a novel whose narrator tries to define words like “death.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Japanese author of Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!, who wrote about 15 adolescent boys abandoned in a plague-stricken village in Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids.
ANSWER: Kenzaburo Ōe (“OH-ay”)
[10h] Due to his son having a suspected brain hernia, this protagonist of Ōe’s novel A Personal Matter replaces his son’s diet of milk with sugared water.
ANSWER: Bird [or Tori]
[10e] Other Ōe character names include that of a boy in Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! whose name derives from this depressed donkey that accompanies Winnie the Pooh in A.A. Milne short stories.
ANSWER: Eeyore
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