One character in this novel risks his reputation on being able to save a child from a destroyed bridge, and earlier, that character talked about how he had travelled to the ghetto in New York City and slept with a fat prostitute.
One character in this novel risks his reputation on being able to save a child from a destroyed bridge, and earlier, that character talked about how he had travelled to the ghetto in New York City and slept with a fat prostitute. At the end of this novel, the narrator decides to take a job in Africa, and earlier, people from all over the region come to get free gaudy stuff from a Korean who comes to dominate the local scene, the Emperor of Supermarkets. The narrator's brother returns to Japan and travels south with his followers, and begins to run soccer practices as a way to energize the local youth with the hopes of starting a revolution like the one in the nineteenth century. The novel opens with the narrator contemplating the title action, in which his friend had painted his face red, stuck a cucumber in his rectum, and hung himself. At the end of this novel, Takashi admits to Mitsusaburo that he had raped their retarded sister, and commits suicide like she did. For 10 points, name this novel about two brothers returning to their ancestral home in Shikoku, by Kenzaburo Oe.
One character in this novel risks his reputation on being able to save a child from a destroyed bridge, and earlier, that character talked about how he had travelled to the ghetto in New York City and slept with a fat prostitute.
The {Silent Cry} [or {Man’en gannen no futtoboru}; or {Football in the First Year of Man’en}]