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
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
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
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.
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
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.
9780720609790 | Reprint edition (Peter Owen Ltd, October 1, 1995), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Endo was runner-up for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.
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
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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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
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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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
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
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