The Silent Cry - Softcover

Oe, Kenzaburo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852426020 ISBN 13: 9781852426026

Verlag: Serpent's Tail, 1998

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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.

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Kenzaburo Oe is Japan's most important living writer. Born in 1935 on the island of Shikoku, Oe studied literature at Tokyo University before spending the sixties in Paris where he came under the influence of Sartre. After his debut novel, he wrote a string of books dissecting contemporary Japan, including Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!, The Pinch Runner Memorandum and the essay collection Hiroshima Notes, on the impact on Japan's national psyche of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War. He lives in Tokyo with his wife and his eldest son Hikari, who was born with severe brain damage; many of the narrators in Oe's fiction have brain-damaged children, most notably in the semi-autobiographical novel A Personal Matter. He won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Serpent's Tail
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1852426020
• ISBN 13: 9781852426026
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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