The Samurai

The Samurai PDF Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Considered one of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, THE SAMURAI seamlessly combines historical fact with a novelist's imaginings. Set in the period preceding the Christian persecutions in Japan recorded so memorably in Endo's SILENCE, this book traces the steps of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil.

The Samurai

The Samurai PDF Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
Considered one of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, THE SAMURAI seamlessly combines historical fact with a novelist's imaginings. Set in the period preceding the Christian persecutions in Japan recorded so memorably in Endo's SILENCE, this book traces the steps of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil.

The Final Martyrs

The Final Martyrs PDF Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811218115
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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An affirmation of faith and identity by Japan's leading Christian novelist.

White Man, Yellow Man

White Man, Yellow Man PDF Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 1587683709
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Book Description
White Man/Yellow Man, by one of Japan's most celebrated writers, gathers into one volume two novellas set during World War II one in France, one in Japan.

Five by Endo

Five by Endo PDF Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214391
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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In "Japanese in Warsaw" a business man has a strange encounter; in "The Box" an old photo album and a few postcards have a tale to reveal. Finally included is "The Case of Isobe," the opening chapter of Endo's wonderful novel Deep River."--BOOK JACKET.

Stained Glass Elegies

Stained Glass Elegies PDF Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Book Description
The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer.

Sachiko

Sachiko PDF Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231552106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country. In the 1930s, two young Japanese Christians, Sachiko and Shūhei, are free to play with American children in their neighborhood. But life becomes increasingly difficult for them and other Christians after Japan launches wars of aggression. Meanwhile, a Polish Franciscan priest and former missionary in Nagasaki, Father Maximillian Kolbe, is arrested after returning to his homeland. Endō alternates scenes between Nagasaki—where the growing love between Sachiko and Shūhei is imperiled by mounting persecution—and Auschwitz, where the priest has been sent. Shūhei’s dilemma deepens when he faces conscription into the Japanese military, conflicting with the Christian belief that killing is a sin. With the A-bomb attack on Nagasaki looming in the distance, Endō depicts ordinary people trying to live lives of faith in a wartime situation that renders daily life increasingly unbearable. Endō’s compassion for his characters, reflecting their struggles to find and share love for others, makes Sachiko one of his most moving novels.

A Life of Jesus

A Life of Jesus PDF Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809123193
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Book Description
Translated By Richard A. Schuchert; My book called A Life of Jesus may cause surprise for American readers when they discover an interpretation of Jesus somewhat at odds with the image they now possess.

Wonderful Fool

Wonderful Fool PDF Author: 遠藤周作
Publisher: PeriplusEdition
ISBN: 9784805303764
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Scandal

Scandal PDF Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140110364
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Suguro is an eminent Catholic novelist who is about to receive a major literary award. When a drunk woman he has never met before approaches him at the award ceremony, claiming she knows him well from his regular visits to Tokyo's red-light district, he assumes she must surely be mistaken. But with a scurrilous press campaign damaging Suguro's reputation, his sleazy doppelganger appears more and more, as if deliberately trying to discredit him. He is sighted touring the love hotels and brothels of Shinjuku; a leering portrait of him appears in an exhibition--and Suguro is forced to undertake a journey into Tokyo's seedy heart in order to discover the dreadful truth.

Kiku's Prayer

Kiku's Prayer PDF Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231530838
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 483

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Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to recant under torture. Kiku's efforts to reconcile her feelings for Seikichi's religion with the sacrifices she makes to free him mirror the painful, conflicting choices Japan faced as a result of exposure to modernity and the West. Seikichi's persecution exemplifies Japan's insecurities, and Kiku's tortured yet determined spirit represents the nation's resilient soul. Set in the turbulent years of the transition from the shogunate to the Meiji Restoration, Kiku's Prayer embodies themes central to Endo Shusaku's work, including religion, modernization, and the endurance of the human spirit. Yet this novel is much more than a historical allegory. It acutely renders one woman's troubled encounter with passion and spirituality at a transitional time in her life and in the history of her people. A renowned twentieth-century Japanese author, Endo wrote from the perspective of being both Japanese and Catholic. His work is often compared with that of Graham Greene, who himself considered Endo one of the century's finest writers.