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(★)(Translated by John Bester／ Titulo original : 万延元年のフットボール [Man-en gan-nen no futto-booru]／ ´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 aftereffects 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.／ Ooe´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.) |
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