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| #1421171 in Books | Kodansha USA | 1994-07-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.69 x.75 x8.44l,.77 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| My favorite Oe novel.|By Jon|I've only read three other Oe novels and this one is my favorite. It's also one of my favorite books in general and I'm an avid reader. It's a very mature book so I DON'T recommend it for a younger audience. As the other reviews say, it's dark and can even be painful to read at times. It's quixotic, brooding, bleak, and to borrow from another review||"A formidable scholar and intellectual whose novels express the moral soul-searching of postwar Japan." -- The Boston Globe
"A major feat of the imagination." -- The Times
"Oe ... seems to me to have in him a touch of Dostoe
The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested western Japan. While one brother tries to sort out the after-effects of a friend's suicide and the birth of a retarded son, the other embarks on a quixotic mission to incite an uprising among the local youth. Oe's description of this brother's messianic struggle to save a disintegrating local culture and economy from the depredatio...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Silent Cry: A Novel | Kenzaburo Oe. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
