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The Silent Cry

The Silent Cry

by KenzaburoOe (Author), JohnBester (Translator)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. Selling their family home leads them to an inescapable confrontation with their family history. Their attempt to escape the influence of the city ends in failure as they realize that its tentacles extend to everything in the countryside, including their own relationship. In 1994, Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Singling out The Silent Cry, the Nobel Committee stated that 'his poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament'. Kenzaburo Oe is one of the great writers of the century and The Silent Cry is his masterpiece.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 22 Sep 2011
ISBN 10: 1846688078
ISBN 13: 9781846688072
Book Overview: The key work by the Nobel Prize winner, The Silent Cry encapsulates 'Japanese history, society and politics within a single, tight narrative' (Susan Napier)

Media Reviews
Somehow - and this is what gives his art such unquestionable stature - Oe manages to smuggle a comic thread in all this tragedy * Independent *
Though thoroughly Japanese, Oe, in the range of hope and despair he covers, seems to me to have in him a touch of Dostoevsky * Henry Miller *
A new pinnacle in postwar Japanese fiction * Yukio Mishima *
Oe piles copious and inventive misery onto his hero before allowing him enlightenment and redemption. -- Jake Kerridge * Sunday Telegraph *
Author Bio
Winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in 1935, Kenzaburo Oe is the leading Japanese writer of his generation. He spent the sixties in Paris where he came under the influence of Sartre. Kenzaburo Oe is one of the great writers of the twentieth century.