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The Silent Cry

The Silent Cry

by John Bester (Translator), Kenzaburo Oe (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. The selling of 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. Signalling 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
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 28 May 1998
ISBN 10: 1852426020
ISBN 13: 9781852426026
Book Overview: The author is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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 *
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 1960s in Paris where he came under the influence of Sartre. 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 20th century.