Product Description

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. In 1994, Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Signalling out The Silent Cry, the Nobel Committee stated that ?his poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament.? Kenzaburo Oe is one of the great writers of the century and The Silent Cry is his masterpiece.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #198897 in Books
• Published on: 1998-05-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 274 pages

About the Author
Winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in 1935, Kenzaburo Oé is the leading Japanese writer of his generation. He spent the 1960s in Paris where he came under the influence of Sartre. The Nobel Committee stated that ‘his poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicamentÂ’. Kenzaburo Oé is one of the great writers of the 20th century.

Customer Reviews

A powerful work
Kenzaburo Oe writes through a dark personal crisis, where the narrator struggles with his ancestors, close relations, memories of the second world war, self destructive urges and racism to find his moral purpose. As well as these themes, however, Oe portrays rural Japan in fascinating detail and brings this world to life for the reader. Oe deserves his Nobel prize for his insight and humanity.