For 10 points, name this Japanese author who wrote about Mitsusaburo and Takashi's return to a village in The Silent Cry.
One of this man's works involves Patron, Guide, and the Church of the New Man, and in another of his novels Ma-chan cares for her mentally retarded musician brother Eeyore. In one of his novels the titular spirit's name was the only word the composer D's infant son spoke; those novels were Somersault, A Quiet Life, and Aghwee the Sky Monster. Many of his novels are influenced by his autistic son Hikari, such as a novel involving Bird and his son with a brain hernia, and in one of his novels a character hangs himself after sodomy involving a cucumber. For 10 points, name this Japanese author who wrote about Mitsusaburo and Takashi's return to a village in The Silent Cry.
One of this man's works involves Patron, Guide, and the Church of the New Man, and in another of his novels Ma-chan cares for her mentally retarded musician brother Eeyore.
Kenzaburo {Oe}