The Silent Cry

kenzaburō Ōe john bester

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.

Genres fictionjapanjapanese literatureliteratureasiaclassicsnobel prizeasian literaturenovels20th century

274 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1967

Literary awards

tanizaki prize 谷崎潤一郎賞,

Places

japan,

This edition

Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1998 by Kodansha
ISBN: 9781852426026
ASIN: 1852426020
Language: English

Characters More characters

Mitsusaburo Nedokoro

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Takashi Nedokoro

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About the author

kenzaburō Ōe

Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎), is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, engage with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, social non-conformism and existentialism.

Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today."