The Samurai

Shusaku Endo, Shuaku Endo. New Directions Publishing Corporation, $13.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-8112-1346-2

A historical novel of early contacts between East and West from one of Japan's greatest 20th-century writers. (Apr.)

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