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.
- ISBN10 1852426020
- ISBN13 9781852426026
- Publish Date 28 May 1998 (first published 1 April 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 March 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Serpent's Tail
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English