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Scandal
Endo Shusaku
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Description for Scandal
Paperback. Translator(s): Gessel, Van C. Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics S. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
Suguro is an eminent Catholic novelist, respectably married and on the cusp of old age. So when a drunken woman approaches him at an awards ceremony claiming to know him from his regular visits to Tokyo's red-light district, she must surely be mistaken. Yet with more sightings reported and a malicious journalist trying to expose him as a fraud, Suguro is forced to take a terrible journey into the city's seedy heart - and to confront his own long repressed desires. The Peter Owen Modern Classics makes available the finest work from an unrivalled international fiction backlist which includes Jean ... Read more
Suguro is an eminent Catholic novelist, respectably married and on the cusp of old age. So when a drunken woman approaches him at an awards ceremony claiming to know him from his regular visits to Tokyo's red-light district, she must surely be mistaken. Yet with more sightings reported and a malicious journalist trying to expose him as a fraud, Suguro is forced to take a terrible journey into the city's seedy heart - and to confront his own long repressed desires. The Peter Owen Modern Classics makes available the finest work from an unrivalled international fiction backlist which includes Jean ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Peter Owen Modern Classics S.
Condition
New
Weight
219 g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780720612417
SKU
V9780720612417
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Ref
99-12
About Endo Shusaku
SHUSAKU ENDO is widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese authors of the late twentieth century. Born in 1923, he won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. His novels, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, include The Sea and Poison, Wonderful Fool, Deep River and Silence. He died in 1996.
Reviews for Scandal
'Scandal ends, as it opens, with sinister premonitions... extremely gripping.' - New York Times 'Subtle, eerie and fascinating' - London Evening Standard 'Endo is a great thriller writer... The novel is spine-chilling, erotic, cruel, full of intellectual games... very powerful.' - Sunday Telegraph 'Endo's most remarkable novel... a superb dramatic triumph, a perfect plaiting of strands into a single, most ... Read more