The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi (.ePUB)
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The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi, James N. Westerhoven (translator)
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Overview: Tsuyoshi Manase is a World War II veteran tormented by memories of the war’s end endured in a cave on the island of Leyte in the Philippines. As defeated and starving soldiers are being executed by their own commander’s sword, a lance corporal—a geologist—tells our hero before dying: “Even the smallest stone in a riverbed has the entire history of the universe inscribed upon it.”
Manase survives the war and returns to civilian life in Japan. He marries, has two sons, runs a bookstore, and obsessively pursues the life of an amateur geologist. When that obsession clashes with the lingering presence of war’s brutality, blood is spilled once more and Manase’s life begins to unravel.
Magical and darkly compelling, The Stones Cry Out—winner of the 1994 Akutagawa Prize—is a haunting tale of guilt, memory, and ultimately of value and meaning that transcend the commonplace of this world.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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