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The Samurai
Shusaku Endo
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Description for The Samurai
Paperback.
In 1613 the missionary Father Pedro Velasco's dream comes true. For the first time, the Japanese are going to cross the Pacific Ocean. And he is going with them. As he sets sail with a group of Samurai, for Mexico, then Spain and finally Rome, his zealous hope is that, by opening up relations with the western world, Japan will become ripe for conversion to Christianity - with him as Bishop. But fate has other plans for Father Velasco.
A gripping portrayal of an extraordinary historical voyage, filled with danger and hardship, The Samurai is a haunting novel of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241307465
SKU
9780241307465
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About Shusaku Endo
Shusaku Endo (1923-96) was one of 20th century Japan's greatest novelists. His major works include The Sea and Poison, Silence (a film adaptation directed by Martin Scorsese was released in 2017), When I Whistle and The Samurai.
Reviews for The Samurai
Powerful... beautifully written... a fascinating narrative with its double perspective from East to West
New Statesman
Endo is really like no one else... as that rarity, a Japanese Catholic, he has found a border territory
of cultural and psychological clash
which is all his own.
The Observer
Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists ... Read more
New Statesman
Endo is really like no one else... as that rarity, a Japanese Catholic, he has found a border territory
of cultural and psychological clash
which is all his own.
The Observer
Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists ... Read more