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The river is the Ganges, where a group of Japanese tourists converge: Isobe, grieving the death of the wife he ignored in life; Kiguchi, haunted by war-time memories of the Highway of Death in Burma; Numada, recovering from a critical illness; Mitsuko, a cynical woman struggling with inner emptiness; and, the butt of her cruel interest, Otsu, a failed seminarian for whom the figure on the cross is a god of many faces. In this novel, the renowned Japanese writer Shusaku Endo reaches his ultimate religious vision.
The river is the Ganges, where a group of Japanese tourists converge: Isobe, grieving the death of the wife he ignored in life; Kiguchi, haunted by war-time memories of the Highway of Death in Burma; Numada, recovering from a critical illness; Mitsuko, a cynical woman struggling with inner emptiness; and, the butt of her cruel interest, Otsu, a failed seminarian for whom the figure on the cross is a god of many faces. In this novel, the renowned Japanese writer Shusaku Endo reaches his ultimate religious vision.
Shusaku Endo was born in Tokyo in 1923 and died in 1996. After his parents divorced, he and his mother converted to Catholicism-a faith which is central to many of his tales. He is widely regarded as Japan's leading writer and has won all his country's major literary prizes, including the Akutagawa, the Noma, the Shincho, and the Tanizaki.
"…Mr. Endo is a master of the interior monologue, and he builds
‘case’ by ‘case,’ chapter by chapter, a devastating critique of the
world that has ‘everything’ but lacks moral substance and seems
headed nowhere. "
*Robert Coles - New York Times Book Review*
"A soulful gift to a world he keeps rendering as unrelievedly
parched."
*Robert Coles - New York Times Book Review*
"One of Japan’s greatest twentieth-century writers. "
*Publishers Weekly*
"...Mr. Endo is a master of the interior monologue, and he builds
'case' by 'case,' chapter by chapter, a devastating critique of the
world that has 'everything' but lacks moral substance and seems
headed nowhere. " -- Robert Coles - New York Times Book Review
"A soulful gift to a world he keeps rendering as unrelievedly
parched." -- Robert Coles - New York Times Book Review
"One of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers. " -- Publishers
Weekly
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