โ Scribed by Oe, Kenzaburo; Bester, John; Bester, John
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; In the Wake of the Dead; Family Reunion; Mighty Forest; Dreams within Dreams; The Emperor of the Supermarkets; A Strange Sport; Procession from the Past; Truth Unspeakable; The Freedom of the Ostracized; Imagination in Riot; The Power of the Flies; A Way beyond Despair; Retrial; Beer in the Snooker Club; The Piano Teacher; A Lesson Before Dying.;Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. Selling 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. Singling 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 hu.
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