Kenzaburo Oe The Silent Cry (Paperback) Serpent's Tail Classics (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Silent CryCondition: NewEAN: 9781781255650ISBN: 9781781255650Edition: Main - Classic editionPublisher: Serpent's TailFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/16/2016Item Height: 196mmItem Length: 128mmItem Width: 22mmItem Weight: 240gAuthor: Kenzaburo OeTranslator: John BesterContributor: John Bester (Translated by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1781255652Description: In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone for his part in anti-American student protests. Takashi's return to Japan coincides with a local Korean supermarket magnate's offer to buy the brothers' ancestral storehouse, pitting the brothers against one another and dredging up family histories best forgotten.The Silent Cry is the most important Japanese novel of the post-war period and a strange, unsettling tale of how the call of blood and history echoes down the generations.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionBook Series: Serpent's Tail ClassicsRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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