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The Silent Cry

by Kenzaburo Oe
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Two brothers in post-war Japan experience an ideological conflict when they reunite at their family home in this philosophical novel by a Nobel laureate.
The Silent Cry follows two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested Western Japan. After decades of separation, the reunited men are each preoccupied by their own personal crises. One brother grapples with the recent suicide of his dearest friend, the birth of his disabled son, and his wife's increasing alcoholism. The other brother sets out to incite an uprising among the local youth against the disintegration of the community's culture and economy due to the imposing franchise of a Korean businessman nicknamed the "Emperor of the Supermarkets." Both brothers live in the shadow of the mysteries surrounding the untimely deaths of their older brother and younger sister, as well as their great-grandfather's political heroism. When long-kept family secrets are revealed, the brothers' strained bond is pushed to its breaking-point and their lives are irrevocably changed . . .
Considered Oe's most essential work by the Nobel Prize committee, The Silent Cry is as powerfully relevant today as it was when first published in 1967.
Praise for The Silent Cry
"[The Silent Cry] allows us a glimpse of Oe's narrative mastery." —Nobel Prize citation
"Somehow—and this is what gives his art such unquestionable stature—Oe manages to smuggle a comic thread in all this tragedy." —Independent (UK)
"A new pinnacle in post-war Japanese fiction." —Yukio Mishima
"Oe, in the range of hope and despair he covers, seems to me to have in him a touch of Dostoevsky." —Henry Miller
"Oe is dense, analytical, with a highly modern self-consciousness, though there's real nostalgia here for the dying traditions of pre-Westernized supermarket culture. A picture of fragmenting identity and social breakdown as brutalizing as the 20th century itself." —Kirkus Reviews
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Publisher: Grove Atlantic

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  • Release date: February 22, 2023

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  • ISBN: 9780802190277
  • File size: 1329 KB
  • Release date: February 22, 2023

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  • ISBN: 9780802190277
  • File size: 1680 KB
  • Release date: February 22, 2023

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Two brothers in post-war Japan experience an ideological conflict when they reunite at their family home in this philosophical novel by a Nobel laureate.
The Silent Cry follows two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested Western Japan. After decades of separation, the reunited men are each preoccupied by their own personal crises. One brother grapples with the recent suicide of his dearest friend, the birth of his disabled son, and his wife's increasing alcoholism. The other brother sets out to incite an uprising among the local youth against the disintegration of the community's culture and economy due to the imposing franchise of a Korean businessman nicknamed the "Emperor of the Supermarkets." Both brothers live in the shadow of the mysteries surrounding the untimely deaths of their older brother and younger sister, as well as their great-grandfather's political heroism. When long-kept family secrets are revealed, the brothers' strained bond is pushed to its breaking-point and their lives are irrevocably changed . . .
Considered Oe's most essential work by the Nobel Prize committee, The Silent Cry is as powerfully relevant today as it was when first published in 1967.
Praise for The Silent Cry
"[The Silent Cry] allows us a glimpse of Oe's narrative mastery." —Nobel Prize citation
"Somehow—and this is what gives his art such unquestionable stature—Oe manages to smuggle a comic thread in all this tragedy." —Independent (UK)
"A new pinnacle in post-war Japanese fiction." —Yukio Mishima
"Oe, in the range of hope and despair he covers, seems to me to have in him a touch of Dostoevsky." —Henry Miller
"Oe is dense, analytical, with a highly modern self-consciousness, though there's real nostalgia here for the dying traditions of pre-Westernized supermarket culture. A picture of fragmenting identity and social breakdown as brutalizing as the 20th century itself." —Kirkus Reviews
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Fiction Literature
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    Publisher:
    Grove Atlantic

    Kindle Book
    Release date: February 22, 2023

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780802190277
    File size: 1329 KB
    Release date: February 22, 2023

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780802190277
    File size: 1680 KB
    Release date: February 22, 2023

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English