{"product_id":"9781847657732","title":"The Silent Cry","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silent Cry\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Profile","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137029751024,"sku":"9781847657732","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781847657732_p0.jpg?v=1763749347","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847657732","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}