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Jinpei Suda, a volcanologist, and Durand, a defrocked Catholic priest, both become obsessed with Akadake, a long quiescent volcano, disagreeing on the question of whether the volcano will soon erupt, a question that rules both their lives
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9780800880323 | Taplinger Pub Co, December 1, 1984, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Jinpei Suda, a volcanologist, and Durand, a defrocked Catholic priest, both become obsessed with Akadake, a long quiescent volcano, disagreeing on the question of whether the volcano will soon erupt, a question that rules both their lives

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9780720614305 | Reprint edition (Peter Owen Ltd, March 1, 2012), cover price $14.95
9780340530856 | Texas Bookman, March 1, 1996, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: This novel is by the author of "The Sea and Poison", "Wonderful Fool", "Science", "When I Whistle", "The Samurai" and "Stained Glass Elegies".

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9780720614374 | Reprint edition (Peter Owen Ltd, March 1, 2012), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: "Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists."  —Graham Greene In 1613, four low-ranking Japanese Samurai, accompanied by a Spanish priest, set sail for Mexico on an unprecedented mission: to bargain for a Catholic crusade through Japan in exchange for trading rights with the West...read more
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9780068598527 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In 1613, with plans to open a trade route between Mexico and Japan, four Samurai and an ambitious Franciscan missionary embark on a journey that takes them to Mexico and Rome and back again to a Japan torn by strife

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9780720613537 | Peter Owen Ltd, April 1, 2011, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: "Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists.
9780720611854 | Peter Owen Ltd, June 28, 2004, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: "Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists.
9780811213462 | Reprint edition (New Directions, April 1, 1997), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Rokuemon Haskura, a low-ranking warrior, is chosen as one of a group of envoys to the Viceroy of Mexico and Pope Paul V, but by the time his delegation returns to Japan, a policy of isolation has been established
9780394727264 | Random House Inc, January 1, 1985, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In 1613, with plans to open a trade route between Mexico and Japan, four Samurai and an ambitious Franciscan missionary embark on a journey that takes them to Mexico and Rome and back again to a Japan torn by strife

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Product Description: On August 9, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing tens of thousands of people in the blink of an eye, while fatally injuring and poisoning thousands more. Among the survivors was Takashi Nagai, a pioneer in radiology research and a convert to the Catholic Faith...read more
By Shusaku Endo (foreword by) and Paul Glynn
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9781586173432 | Ignatius Pr, October 30, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: On August 9, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing tens of thousands of people in the blink of an eye, while fatally injuring and poisoning thousands more.

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Product Description: An affirmation of faith and identity by Japan's leading Christian novelist.Eleven short, deeply spiritual stories ranging from autobiographical serendipities to solemn, empathetic parables. The title story is set during the 18th-century Shogunate persecution of Christians in Japan...read more
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9780811212724 | New Directions, September 1, 1994, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories by Shusaku Endo whose stories have been published in 25 countries and won several major awards.

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9780811218115 | Italian edition edition (New Directions, January 27, 2009), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An affirmation of faith and identity by Japan's leading Christian novelist.

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Product Description: Gaston Bonaparte, a young Frenchman, visits Tokyo to stay with his pen-pal Takamori. His appearance is a bitter disappointment to his new friends and his behavior causes them acute embarrassment. He is a trusting person with a simple love for others, and he continues to trust even after they have demonstrated deceit and betrayal...read more
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9780720613209 | 3 edition (Peter Owen Ltd, December 15, 2008), cover price $15.95 | also contains Wonderful Fool | About this edition: Gaston Bonaparte, a young Frenchman, visits Tokyo to stay with his pen-pal Takamori.
9780720610802 | Peter Owen Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Endo was runner-up for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.

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Product Description: Elegantly divided into three sections, this ... calibrates the dislocation of Easterners transplanted to the West. ""A Summer in Rouen,"" set shortly after WW II, follows the recipient of a church-sponsored scholarship that has brought him from Japan to France to study Christian literature...read more
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9780671703332 | Linden Pub, May 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The author portrays the alienation of three Japanese living in the West--Kudo, a student in 1950s France; Araki Thomas, a seventeenth-century Catholic studying theology in Rome; and Tanaka, a scholar researching the Marquis de Sade

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9780720612264 | New tra edition (Peter Owen Ltd, November 15, 2009), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Elegantly divided into three sections, this .

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Product Description: Tr. from the Japanese by F. Mathy. The events described in this play take place in 1633, 100 years after Christianity was introduced to Japan, by which time Japanese Christians were being cruelly persecuted by the government. The central character is a Portuguese Jesuit missionary...read more
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9780804833370 | Tuttle Pub, August 15, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Tr.

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Product Description: Tr. from the Japanese by F. Mathy. The events described in this play take place in 1633, 100 years after Christianity was introduced to Japan, by which time Japanese Christians were being cruelly persecuted by the government. The central character is a Portuguese Jesuit missionary...read more
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9780720607581, titled "The Golden Country" | Peter Owen Ltd, June 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tr.

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9781929280216 | Univ of Michigan Center for, May 1, 2003, cover price $45.00

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9781929280223 | Univ of Michigan Center for, May 1, 2003, cover price $22.00

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Product Description: Five wonderful stories by the Japanese master. Winner of every major Japanese literary prize, his work translated around the globe, Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) is a great and unique figure in the literature of the twentient century. "Irrevocably enmeshed in Japanese culture, he is by virtue of his religion [Endo was Roman Catholic] irrevocably alienated from it" (Geoffrey O'Brian, Village Voice)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780811214391 | New Directions, June 1, 2000, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Five wonderful stories by the Japanese master.

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Product Description: A romance about abandonment and guilt.
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9780811213035 | New Directions, November 1, 1995, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Preparing to settle down to a career and marriage with his employer's niece, student Yoshioka Tstomu is unable to forget a fleeting relationship with Mitsu, a naive country girl, whose life is irrevocably changed by the affair

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9780811217736 | Not Applicable, November 30, 1995, cover price $17.95 | also contains The Girl I Left Behind | About this edition: A romance about abandonment and guilt.

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Product Description: A collection of stories by Shusaku Endo whose stories have been published in 25 countries and won several major awards. Endo is the author of "The Sea and Poison", "Wonderful Fool", "Science", "When I Whistle", "The Samurai" and "Stained Glass Elegies".
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9781550820843 | Quarry Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories by Shusaku Endo whose stories have been published in 25 countries and won several major awards.

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The acclaimed author of Silence offers a religious vision combining Christian faith with Buddhist acceptance in the story of a group of Japanese tourists who converge at the Ganges River, in an India vividly brought to life. (view table of contents)
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9780811212892 | New Directions, April 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offers a religious vision combining Christian faith with Buddhist acceptance in the story of a group of Japanese tourists who converge at the Ganges River in India

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Young interns Suguro, compelled by circumstance, Toda, a cynic, and Nurse Ueda, numbed by tragedy, take part in experiments the Japanese doctors are performing on their American prisoners (view table of contents)
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9780811211987 | Reprint edition (New Directions, April 1, 1992), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Young interns Suguro, compelled by circumstance, Toda, a cynic, and Nurse Ueda, numbed by tragedy, take part in experiments the Japanese doctors are performing on their American prisoners

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Product Description: The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer.The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less familiar...read more
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9780811211420 | New Directions, September 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer.

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Suguro, a respected and famous Catholic writer, finds his life scandalized by accusations that he frequents the red-light district, and he soon discovers an imposter who forces him to question his own moral character
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9780679723554 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Suguro, a respected and famous Catholic writer, finds his life scandalized by accusations that he frequents the red-light district, and he soon discovers an imposter who forces him to question his own moral character

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Product Description: A simple and powerful retelling of the life of Christ as seen through the eyes of a Japanese novelist.
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9780809123193 | Paulist Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A simple and powerful retelling of the life of Christ as seen through the eyes of a Japanese novelist.

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Suguro, a respected and famous Catholic writer, finds his life scandalized by accusations that he frequents the red-light district, and he soon discovers an imposter who forces him to question his own moral character
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9780396093206 | Dodd Mead, August 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Suguro, a respected and famous Catholic writer, finds his life scandalized by accusations that he frequents the red-light district, and he soon discovers an imposter who forces him to question his own moral character
9780720606829 | Peter Owen Ltd, June 1, 1988, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Suguro, a respected and famous Catholic writer, finds his life scandalized by accusations that he frequents the red-light district, and he soon discovers an imposter who forces him to question his own moral character

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9780396091479 | Dodd Mead, September 1, 1987, cover price $2.98
9780720606294 | Peter Owen Ltd, June 1, 1984, cover price $31.95

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While visiting a middle-class Japanese family, Gaston Bonaparte attempts to apply Christian charity to the downtrodden of Tokyo
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9780068598534 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: While visiting a middle-class Japanese family, Gaston Bonaparte attempts to apply Christian charity to the downtrodden of Tokyo

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Young interns Suguro, compelled by circumstance, Toda, a cynic, and Nurse Ueda, numbed by tragedy, take part in experiments the Japanese doctors are performing on their American prisoners
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9780800870218 | Taplinger Pub Co, September 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Young interns Suguro, compelled by circumstance, Toda, a cynic, and Nurse Ueda, numbed by tragedy, take part in experiments the Japanese doctors are performing on their American prisoners

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Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Purtuguese missionary in Japan administers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ. (view table of contents)
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9780804807203 | Tuttle Pub, June 1, 1979, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama.

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9780800871864 | Parkwest Pubns, February 1, 1980, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Purtuguese missionary in Japan administers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ.

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