The Stones Cry Out (Hardcover)
At the end of World War II, Tsuyoshi Manase returns to civilian life, runs a bookstore, marries, and has two sons. Despite his efforts to maintain an ordered existence and suppress a troubled conscience, his past as a solider insinuates itself in Manase’s life in this haunting tale of guilt, memory, and expiation. Winner of Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize. Translated by James Westerhoven.
"There is a German verb, grassieren, which means 'to be rampant, rife, prevalent, to prevail.' The word might as well derive from Günter Grass, rampant with bravura showmanship, rife with impudent trickery, and, in the end, prevailing.-The Washington Post "The volume is Grass's magical mystery history tour, a mix of fiction, reminiscence, and nonfiction, an idiosyncratic time machine."-The Boston Globe
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