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    <body><![CDATA[Silent Cry, by Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe, takes place in Japan in the late 1960s, following Mitsusaburo, his wife Natsumi and his brother, Takashi as they return to the rural valley community where Mitsu's family has lived for over a century. Mitsu is an anti-hero of the lowest calibre -- weak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55328162">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Peasants, forest, revolution! Supermarket! Complementary brotherpairs, whiskey, ruffians, storehouse, ritualized violence!<br/><br/>Seemed diffuse and evocative. Wish I knew more about 1970s Japanese peasantry. Interesting parallels to fiction re: Chinese Cultural Revolution.<br/><br/>Trauma, sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/260463">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 15 17:26:44 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reminds me of why I hate baseball.  The action doesn't start until the batter steps up to the plate, but before that there's a lot of waiting.  First he has to take some practice swings.  Then adjust his cup.  Then maybe spit.  Only then...no wait, one more cup adjustment.  <br/>The first...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47095261">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A laugh a minute in this semi-fantastic tale of rural anarchy. If i knew more of post-war Japan I might be able to comment more on the accuracy/insight this novel contains. But I don't, so I won't. My first sentence was a big lie.<br/><br/>Relentlessly depressing. But compelling. ish.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The past and its secrets and the current myths about the past are all part of the existential struggle of the two brothers in this novel.  For the past always intrudes on the present.  For one brother, it means having to become the leader of a rebellion that is doomed from the beginning and can only...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70269318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Silent Cry</em> is a more serious work than many of his other novels and give us plenty to contemplate.  The plot develops and builds steadily toward a shocking climax.  This is arguably Oe Kenzaburo's masterpiece.  The story is filled with plenty of psychological tension in under three hundred pages...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44476151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29987811">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a feeling that this translation is not the best in the world (though as far as I know it's the only). Oe gets quite a bit of praise for the poetics of his language, but I didn't really think it was all that remarkable, which, in the case of translations, tends to make me think less of the tra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29987811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77449190">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Only occasionally gets bogged down in the &quot;logistics of forming a cult&quot;, which is what sinks Oe's later &quot;Somersault&quot; for me -- otherwise, a compelling and resonant metaphorical tale of two brothers confronting their relationship and their own histories. At his best, Oe's writing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77449190">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <title>Der stumme Schrei.</title>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ein atemberaubendes Buch, das einen trotz anfangs verworrener Handlung sofort in den Bann zieht. Die beiden Brüder Takashi und Mitsusaburo kehren zusammen mit Mitsus Frau, die dem Whiskey verfallen ist, in das Dorf ihrer Vorfahren zurück und wandeln auf deren Spuren. Ein Aufstand von 1860, den Tak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55107758">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33937186">
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    <body><![CDATA[Oe is a tough read. he seems most at home writing about the limits of human personality amidst crisis, and much of his writing builds that crisis to a fever pitch. Such was my experience with _A Personal Matter_ and the same is overwhelmingly true of _The Silent Cry_. If you can picture the sound of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33937186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41185283">
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    <body><![CDATA[oh ampun.. I was a bit depressed when I read this book, and it took hella long to read the whole book because of my bad emotion and the dark feeling this book gave to me. but strangely I like this book.. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All of Oe's short stories that I have read have been totally killer, but I did not so much dig this.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first encounter with Oe. Dynamite. Depressing. Decided to post it when Mary Louise Penaz posted NIP THE BUDS, SHOOT THE KIDS. I can also recommend THE CRAZY IRIS, a collection of short pieces by Oe. Which, to my consternation, kept reminding me of an elderly Japanese gentleman I once knew who was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18279739">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[jadi tahu budaya jepun...]]></body>
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    <review id="70462497">
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    <body><![CDATA[Kurang menyengat...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A truly epic work that traces the struggle of two brothers, one a recent father of a retarded kid and friend to a victim of a masochistic suicide and the other an aspiring revolutionist trying to find a way to make his mark on this cold, indelible world. A beautiful, but also agonizing read at times...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53965096">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just a heads up for anyone who likes Murakami...I got this book from a grad student in Japanese lit who said that Murakami basically stole ideas and style from Oe...And this book is the original idea from Murakami created The Wind Up Bird Chronicle....is it true? Je ne sais pas. I haven't looked int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32893423">more...</a>]]></body>
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