Books like The Silent Cry
Mitsusaburo, his marriage strained and a friend's suicide behind him, goes back with his wife to the family's village in a forested valley on Shikoku with his younger brother Takashi, just home from America, who wants to sell the old storehouse.
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Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
Four novellas, among them the title story of a very fat man who devotes himself to his brain-damaged son, and The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away.
A Personal Matter
Bird, a twenty-seven-year-old cram-school teacher who dreams of escaping to Africa, learns that his newborn son has a severe brain hernia, and spends the following days running from the decision in front of him.
Beijing Coma
Dai Wei, a student shot in the head in Tiananmen Square in 1989, lies in a coma for ten years, aware of everything, remembering the protests while China changes around him.
Reeds in the Wind
In a Sardinian village, three ageing sisters of a ruined noble family and their devoted servant Efix, who carries a secret, wait for a nephew from the mainland who might save them.
The Garlic Ballads
When the farmers of a county in Shandong are told to grow garlic and the market then collapses, they riot and burn down the government offices.
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
A girl grows up in rural Ireland with her mother and her brother, whose childhood brain tumour has left him damaged, told in fractured, half-formed prose.
Death and the Dervish
Ahmed Nurudin, sheikh of a dervish lodge in Ottoman Sarajevo, begins to question everything when his brother is arrested and he cannot find out why.
The Bone People
Kerewin Holmes, a reclusive artist living alone in a tower on the South Island coast, finds a mute boy, Simon, in her house one night, and comes to know him and his Māori foster father, Joe.
Harvest
On the morning after harvest in a remote English village, two fires and three strangers on the edge of the common start a week that will end the old way of life there.
A Grain of Wheat
In a Kenyan village in the days before independence in 1963, the villagers want to honour Mugo, a quiet man they believe was a hero of the Mau Mau struggle.
Burnt Shadows
Hiroko Tanaka survives the atomic bomb at Nagasaki in 1945, and her life, and her family's, carries her on to Delhi, Karachi and New York.
Satantango
In the mud and rain of a collapsing Hungarian collective farm, the last villagers hear that a charismatic man they thought dead is coming back, and he leads them into a new scheme.