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.
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