Shusaku Endo, Author Dodd Mead $0 (261p) ISBN 978-0-396-09320-6
In this chilling, incisive study of the secret fears and obsessions of an aging writer, eminent Japanese author Endo examines the uncertain territory that lies between studying acts of violence and depravity and committing them. At 65, the writer...
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Shusaku Endo, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70333-2
Elegantly divided into three sections, this 1965 novel by the celebrated Japanese author of Scandal calibrates the dislocation of Easterners transplanted to the West. ``A Summer in Rouen,'' set shortly after WW II, follows the recipient of a church-s
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Shusaku Endo, Author, Michael Gallagher, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $12.95 (167p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1198-7
Against the backdrop of World War II, Japanese writer Endo ( Scandal ) explores the nature of morality. In this novel, originally published in Japan in 1958, the author examines the inner lives of three characters in the central drama, a grisly...
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Shusaku Endo, Author, Mark Williams, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $25.95 (194p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1303-5
``Some 35 years have passed since I wrote this novel and, on rereading it, I am struck by the immature technique revealed in certain places.'' So writes Endo (Deep River) in a candid afterword. Endo, Japan's foremost Catholic novelist, is a good...
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Shusaku Endo, Author, Van C. Gessel, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $14.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1320-2
Japanese novelist Endo combines a harsh critique of the emptiness in modern lives with a religious vision of spiritual rebirth. (May)
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Shusaku Endo, Author, Van C. Gessel, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $7 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1439-1
Not as well known in the West as Mishima or Kawabata, the late Endo is one of Japan's most revered novelists, his most famous work being Silence, in which the Roman Catholic author deals with the torture and martyrdom of Christians in 17th-century...
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Shusaku Endo, Author, Van C. Gessel, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $21.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1272-4
In a calm, delicate, unobtrusive manner, several of these 11 deceptively simple stories by Japanese novelist Endo (The Golden Country) show people wrestling with spiritual crises, extreme situations or life's central issues. In ``The Last Supper,''...
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Shuaku Endo, Author, Shusaku Endo, Author, Van C. Gessel, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $13.95 (272p) 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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Shasaku Endo, Author, Shusaku Endo, Author, Francis Mathy, Translator Peter Owen Publishers $28.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0979-0
In Japanese novelist Endo's 1959 satire, an awkward but noble young Frenchman challenges the self-satisfied moral apathy of a Japanese family. (Oct.)
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