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In novels such as
Silence, End¿ Sh¿saku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras.
Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country.
Sommario
Translator’s Introduction
Acknowledgments
1. His Arrival
2. Sachiko
3. A Spy
4. A Minor Secret
5. Dark Surging Waves
6. The Place of Death
7. The Student Dormitory
8. A Conversation About Love
9. Anguish
10. Escape
11. Girlish Innocence
12. A Summer Ablaze
13. The Death of Kolbe
14. Step by Step
15. That Day
16. A Decision
17. As Though There Were No War
18. Letters from Shūhei
19. Dark Days
20. 1944
21. And Sachiko . . .
22. Requiem
23. August
24. Aftermath
Author’s Afterword
Appendix: Synopsis of Kiku’s Prayer
Info autore
Van C. Gessel is professor of Japanese at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata; coeditor of The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature; and translator of seven literary works by Endo Shusaku, including The Samurai, Deep River, and Kiku's Prayer.Endō Shūsaku (1923–1996) studied French literature at the University of Lyon from 1950 to 1953. In 1995, Emperor Akihito of Japan presented him with the Order of Culture, the nation's highest honor for contributions in literature, art, and culture. His publications include the internationally acclaimed novel Silence, The Sea and Poison, A Life of Jesus, Song of Sadness, and Kiku's Prayer, as well as many other works dealing with childhood, the stigma of being an outsider, the experience of being a foreigner, and the difficulties of following a foreign faith.
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In novels such as Silence, Endo Shusaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country.
Testo aggiuntivo
If you read only one new novel this year, let it be the great Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo’s Sachiko . . . The novel is the achievement of a master of world literature, a work that, rooted in time and place, speaks movingly to persons and places far beyond the Japanese islands.
