The Silent Cry
By Kenzaburo Oe; S. Shaw (Editor); John Bester (Translator)
(Kodansha USA, Paperback, 9784770019653, 288pp.)
Publication Date: October 1994
Categories: Asian - General, General
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Description
The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested western Japan. While one brother tries to sort out the after-effects of a friend's suicide and the birth of a retarded son, the other embarks on a quixotic mission to incite an uprising among the local youth. Oe's description of this brother's messianic struggle to save a disintegrating local culture and economy from the depredations of a Korean wheeler-dealer called "The Emperor of the Supermarkets" is as chillingly pertinent today as it was when first published in 1967. Powerful and daring, The Silent Cry is a thoroughly compelling classic of world literature.
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