The Silent Cry: A Novel

The Silent Cry: A Novel by Bester, John. paperback edition. ISBN: 9784770019653.

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 after-effects of a friends suicide and the birth of a retarded son, the other embarks on a quixotic mission to incite an uprising among the local youth. Oes description of this brothers 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.