num_pages: 274
description: 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 depredations of a Korean wheeler-dealer called "The Emperor of the Supermarkets" is as chillingly pertinent today as it was when first published in 1967. Powerful and daring, The Silent Cry is a thoroughly compelling classic of world literature.
language: English
title: The Silent Cry
titlecomplete: The Silent Cry
characters: Takashi Nedokoro, Mitsusaburo Nedokoro
genres: Fiction, Asia, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Classics, Asian Literature, Novels, Nobel Prize, 20th Century
ratings_count: 3769
places: Japan
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: Tanizaki Prize 谷崎潤一郎賞
publisher: Kodansha International