I Hear Them Cry, Shiho Kishimoto
I Hear Them Cry, Shiho Kishimoto
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I Hear Them Cry

Author: Shiho Kishimoto, Raj Mahtani

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Unabridged: 4 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/05/2013

Synopsis

Winner of the Toyo Shuppan Literary Award.Within the peaceful walls of an old French church, Mayu, a young Japanese artist, finds inspiration. She befriends the local priest and gets involved with community outreach, discovering a rough world of drugs, prostitution, and marginalized youth. Through this work, she learns the value of human life. Even young Pierre, who gets arrested for attacking his mother with a knife, deserves compassion.This delinquent has a seven-year-old sister named Anna and, as Mayu gets to know the family, she uncovers a disturbing history of abuse. Her wild attempt to save the girl from her twisted mother calls upon a brutal courage she didn’t know she had.

About Shiho Kishimoto

Shiho Kishimoto is an award-winning Japanese author, whose accolades include the Tenth Shinpusha Foucault Masterpiece Award for the best short story anthology for Lottery and the Aichi Publishing Critic’s Award for I See a Stranger. I Hear Them Cry, first published in Japan in 2003, earned the Toyo Shuppan Literary Award and marked Kishimoto’s debut as a novelist. Kishimoto graduated from Japan’s Women’s College of Fine Arts. She lives in Hong Kong.Raj Mahtani has been a Japanese-to-English translator since the early nineties, and currently works closely with TranNet, a Japanese literary translation agency in Tokyo. Among Mahtani’s recent translations are Reiko Saegusa’s Tale Winds, Akiko Hoshino’s Painted Cookies, Fumitada Naoe’s Live with Meaning. Die with Passion, and Randy Taguchi’s Fujisan. Mahtani holds a BA in international affairs from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He lives in Yokohama, Japan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judith

I did quite enjoy some aspects of this book - the heroine is (mostly) quite likeable - "I long to live an authentic life as an artist in Paris - oh, hang on, rich handsome boyfriend is an option?!" The supposed romantic hero is not at all likeable. Someone who has had a tortured unhappy childhood and......more

Goodreads review by Lesley

This was an extraordinary book, seen through the eyes of a young Japanese girl who was the narrator. I think because the author is Japanese it lent a different and unusual perspective to an old and emotive subject- child abuse. When our narrator Mayu arrives in France she wants only to immerse herself......more

Goodreads review by Kasa

Concerned with the subject of child abuse, this is a complicated, flawed debut novel that reads fast. There is a desire at work here to connect the dots between generations of abuse, but possibly the author did not know enough about the subject to make for a compelling argument. There is nothing ori......more

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