TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oba,Minako
AU  - Wilson,Michael K.
AU  - Wilson,Michiko N.
TI  - Of Birds Crying: A Novel 
T2  - New Japanese Horizons
SN  - 9781942242604
AV  - PL858.B3 
U1  - 895.635 23/eng/20220906
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Authors
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fiction & Short Stories
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 --; 2 --; 3 --; 4 --; 5 --; 6 --; 7 --; 8 --; 9 --; 10 --; 11 --; 12 --; 13 --; 14 --; 15 --; 16 --; 17 --; 18 --; 19 --; Glossary; restricted access
N2  - Of Birds Crying (Naku tori no, 1985), the recipient of the Noma Bungei Prize, is loosely based on the author's own life, recounting six months in the lives of Yurie Mama, a well-established middle-aged novelist married to a scientist. In this deeply psychological novel, a tapestry of extraordinary moments expands and interconnects via interior monologues and dialogues ranging from the humorous and farcical to the somber and meditative. Acutely perceptive social and cross-cultural commentaries fill the narrator's voice and the characters' conversations. Long-forgotten incidents come back to life, triggered by the sight of an ancient tree, the name of a flower, or the crying of a bird, and memories spawn tales within tales. Despite the fact that the characters' motives for their actions defy prediction, these seemingly disparate elements are woven into a coherent whole, a reflection of the interdependency of humanity and nature in its wholeness that is one of the many underlying threads of the story
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781942242604
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781942242604
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781942242604/original
ER  -