The Silent Cry
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8021-2478-4
- EAN: 9780802124784
- Produktnummer: 19580261
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.6 cm x D3.2 cm 408 g
- Gewicht: 408
Über den Autor
Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for creating an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today. He is the author of numerous books, including The Changeling; Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age; Hiroshima Notes; A Personal Matter; and Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, among others.
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