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Deep River by Shusaku Endo
Category: Fiction
In this moving novel, a group of Japanese tourists, each of whom is wrestling with his or her own demons, travels to the River Ganges on a pilgrimage of grace.
GOLDEN COUNTRY A PLAY ABOUT MARTYRS IN JAPAN by ENDO SHUSAKU
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of Japanese Literature
A play based on real-life events in 1633, 100 years after Christianity was introduced to Japan. From the author of Silence.
Silence by Shusaku Endo; William Johnston (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'Flawless' - David Mitchell'A masterpiece' - Daily TelegraphWinner of the Tanizaki PrizePublished in 1967 in Japan to huge controversy, Silence is Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed novel and a classic of its genre.Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in the 1640s, sets sail ...Show more
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Review of BooksSeventeenth-century Japan: ...Show more
Silence by Shusaku Endo; William Johnston (Translator)
Category: Infant
A young Portuguese Jesuit, Sebastiao Rodrigues (based on the historical figure, Guiseppe Chiara), is sent to Japan to succor the local church and investigate reports that his mentor, Father Cristovao Ferreira, has committed apostasy. (ferreira is a historical figure who apostatized after torture and lat ...Show more
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Category: Fiction
With an introduction by Martin Scorsese: 'One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless' - David Mitchell Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in the 1640s, sets sail for Japan on a determined mission to help the brutally oppressed Japanese Chr ...Show more
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And I keep turning over in my mind the thought that I am at the end of the earth, in a place which you do not know and which your whole lives through you will never visit. It is 1640 and Father Sebastian Rodr ...Show more
Silence (FRENCH EDITION) by Shusaku Endo
Category: Fiction
"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of Books
Silence (Film Tie-In Hardback) by Shusaku Endo
Category: Fiction
In 1637 two Portuguese missionaries undertake a perilous search for their Jesuit tutor missing on the hostile islands of Japan. The Shogun and his Samurai have purged the land of Western influence, rooting out Christians and subjecting them to a fate worse than death - torture until they renounce the wo ...Show more
The Samurai by Shusaku Endo; Van C. Gessel (Translator)
Category: Classics
In the 17th century, Hasekura and three other low-level samurai are sent to seek trade with Nueva Espa a (today's Mexico). Accompanied by Father Velasco, a Franciscan missionary and interpreter, they pursue their mission from Nueva Espa a to Spain. Along the way, they endure not only the hardships of th ...Show more
The Samurai by Shusaku Endo
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1613 the missionary Father Pedro Velasco's dream comes true. For the first time, the Japanese are going to cross the Pacific Ocean. And he is going with them. As he sets sail with a group of Samurai, for Mexico, then Spain and finally Rome, his zealous hope is that, by opening up relations with the w ...Show more