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The Silent Cry

By Kenzaburo Oe

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The Silent Cry

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In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone for his part in anti-American student protests. Takashi's return to Japan coincides with a local Korean supermarket magnate's offer to buy the brothers' ancestral storehouse, pitting the brothers against one another and dredging up family histories best forgotten. The Silent Cry is the most important Japanese novel of the post-war period and a strange, unsettling tale of how the call of blood and history echoes down the generations.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2016-06-16
Publication Date:
2016-06-16
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1781255652
ISBN13:
9781781255650
Weight:
237 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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