The stones cry out
By: Hikaru Okuizumi ; translated from the Japanese by James Westerhoven.
Contributors: Westerhoven, James.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.; Geologists -- Japan -- Fiction.; Guilt -- Fiction.; Japan -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A Japanese novel on a bookseller whose life is one tragedy after another. One son is murdered, another turns revolutionary and the wife becomes an alcoholic. As if that is not enough, Tsuyoshi Manase is haunted by a World War II massacre of wounded Japanese soldiers by his own, who considered the wounded deadweight.