I Hear Them Cry

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Mayu. Mayu. Mayu. His whispered plea intertwines with a girl's silent cry. Help. Help. Somebody help. Everywhere Mayu turns she can feel the unspoken cries of the suffering. No one else seems to notice those most in need - but Mayu is compelled to do something. When she meets seven-year-old Anna, whose eyes speak to the unthinkable abuses in her past, Mayu knows the only escape for this victim is more violence. Mayu must unearth a brutal courage she never knew she had...Help. Help. Somebody help. Haunted by her audacity, she attempts to carve out a different life far away from Anna. But before long she discovers that her seemingly perfect new husband harbors secrets that threaten their marriage. As Mayu struggles to accept her husband and save her marriage, she is forced to redefine compassion - and recognize that love and violence are often intertwined.

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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 Critics Award for I See a Stranger. I Hear Them Cry, first published in Japan in 2003, earned the Toyo Shuppan Literary Award and marked Kishimotos debut as a novelist. Kishimoto graduated from Japans Womens 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 Mahtanis recent translations are Reiko Saegusas Tale Winds, Akiko Hoshinos Painted Cookies, Fumitada Naoes Live with Meaning. Die with Passion, and Randy Taguchis Fujisan. Mahtani holds a BA in international affairs from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He lives in Yokohama, Japan.