One character in this work decides that if people are willing to bring elephants from Africa to the rest of the world, then people are still good.
One contention in this work is whether or not one character allowed saliva, brown from candy, to color his face, while another character was carrying his slain brother's body home in a wheelbarrow. One character in this work decides that if people are willing to bring elephants from Africa to the rest of the world, then people are still good. Hoshio, who worked as a mechanic for one of this novel's main character, including fixing a broken-down Citroen, reveals that the narrator has been cuckolded by Natsumi, shortly before that narrator's brother reveals that he had sex with their retarded sister and kills himself, after trying and failing to foment rebellion among the Okube youth like his great-great-uncle had in 1860. Early in this novel, the narrator sits in the bottom of a pit in his yard with a stray dog and contemplates the death of his nameless best friend, who hung himself after painting his head red and putting a cucumber in his anus. For 10 points, name this novel about Mitsusaburo and Takashi, a work by Kenzaburo Oe. 
One contention in this work is whether or not one character allowed saliva, brown from candy, to color his face, while another character was carrying his slain brother's body home in a wheelbarrow.
The Silent Cry [or Man'en gannen no futtoboru or Football in the First Year of Man'en or Soccer in the First Year of Man'en]