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The Silent Cry

Written by: Kenzaburo Oe, John Bester - translation
Narrated by: Kevin Shen
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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 work of the post-war period and a strange, unsettling tale of how the call of blood and history echoes down the generations.

©1967 The Heirs of Kenzaburo Oe (P)2026 Bolinda Publishing Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Critic Reviews

'Somehow – and this is what gives his art such unquestionable stature – Oe manages to smuggle a comic thread in all this tragedy.' (The Independent)
'A new pinnacle in post-war Japanese fiction.' (Yukio Mishima, author of Confessions of a Mask)
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