The Silent Cry by Kenzaburō ŌeMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Such a gloomy and morbid tale of a family of degenerate characters. A bulimic caretaker gorging away at the cost of her family who get progressively malnourished; a suicidal friend; a child with a meningomyelocele turned into a vegetable, post-surgery; the sociopathic masochistic protagonist with low self-esteem; a scheming brother who is an incestuous rebel without a cause, a rabble rouser, murderer, philanderer and rapist, to boot; a clinically depressed mother; an adulterous wife; a cretinous sister who suffered sexual abuse as a child, and the father – a good-for-nothing, involved in grandiose schemes that invariably failed.
Not one redeeming feature, and yet I ploughed on till the miserable end, hoping for a ray of hope…
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