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Shusaku Endo (Author)

The Final Martyrs

Editura: NEW DIRECTIONS

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Eleven short, deeply spiritual stories ranging from autobiographical serendipities to solemn, empathetic parables. The title story is set during the 18th-century Shogunate persecution of Christians in Japan.

Shusaku Endo (Author)

White Man/Yellow Man: Two Novellas

Editura: PAULIST PR

Anul aparitiei: 2014

White Man, Yellow Man, by one of Japan's most celebrated writers, gathers into one volume two novellas set during World War II--one in France, one in Japan. "White Man," which won Japan's most prestigious Akutagawa literary prize, is the work that first brought Endo wide recognition. The main character is a French collaborator who assists the Nazi occupiers of Lyon with their interrogation and torture of a Catholic seminarian, a man he knows and whose cousin he had ruined before the war. The narrative unfolds in the voice of the collaborator in his diary, which unflinchingly documents the cruelty and sadism of human beings while still pondering the Christian desire for redemption. "Yellow Man" is the story of a Japanese man who, though raised as a Christian, maintains a distressing wartime liaison with his best friend's fiancée. Exhausted by the war and slowly dying from tuberculosis, he discovers that his commitment to an alien "white" God has never been more than superficial. Endo's novellas intertwine most clearly in this character and the persecuted French missionary whose relationship to God is deeply sincere--contrasting the experience of a man who discovers his indifference ...

Shusaku Endo (Author)

The Golden Country

Editura: PETER OWEN LTD

Anul aparitiei: 1989

A play based on real-life events in 1633, 100 years after Christianity was introduced to Japan. From

Shusaku Endo (Author)

The Samurai

Editura: PETER OWEN LTD

Anul aparitiei: 2011

""Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists." --Graham Greene" ""In 1613, four low-ranking Japanese Samurai, accompanied by a Spanish priest, set sail for Mexico on an unprecedented mission: to bargain for a Catholic crusade through Japan in exchange for trading rights with the West. Among the first Japanese ever to set foot in Europe, they travel to Rome and gain an audience with the Pope. All are baptized, hoping to curry favor with their European hosts. But upon returning to Japan, they discover that the Shoguns no longer wish to forge links with the West, nor will they tolerate the Christian religion. The seven-year mission has been in vain. Disgraced and tormented, the Samurai begin to identify deeply with the crucified Christ they formerly reviled. Based on historical fact, this is a powerful examination of the impact of external events on our deepest beliefs.

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Fille Que J AI Abandonn

Editura: EMERALD GROUP PUB

Anul aparitiei: 1998

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Fleuve Sacre

Editura: SPRINGER PG

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems explores the research and development of fully-functional miniature UAV

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Silence

Editura: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH

Anul aparitiei: 2010

This volume introduces recent developments of partial differential equations (PDEs) in the field of

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Femme Nommee Shizu

Editura: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Created by the legendary Dr Morris F. Collen, now in his nineties, this book maps the journey from t

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Dernier Souper Et Autr

Editura: TRANSWORLD PUBL

Anul aparitiei: 2003

Follows three glamorous MeDolls models, as they take part in photo shoots and catwalk shows around t

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Silence

Editura: GENERAL BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Shusaku Endo's New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times , now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver. " Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."- The New York Review of Books Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs. Shusaku Endo is one of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers of the twentieth century, and Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece.

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Deep River

Editura: ROSEN PUB GROUP

Anul aparitiei: 2010

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 (Author)

The Samurai

Editura: ROSEN PUB GROUP

Anul aparitiei: 2010

In the 17th century, Hasekura and three other low-level samurai are sent to seek trade with Nueva Espana (today's Mexico). Accompanied by Father Velasco, a Franciscan missionary and interpreter, they pursue their mission from Nueva Espana to Spain. Along the way, they endure not only the hardships of the journey but Velasco's incessant proselytizing. The ambitious priest, who believes that their conversion will gain him the appointment as Bishop of Japan, convinces them that they will succeed only if they convert to Christianity, and reluctantly they agree. Failure, however, is their only reward.After years of wandering, they return to Japan, where they face shame and persecution. Basing his novel on the actual voyage of Hasekura, Shusaku Endomasterfully evokes the struggle between the Western individual and the Eastern collective identity and in so doing plumbs the depths of honor, faith, and human endurance. The result is an expansive audio book of astonishing power and insight."

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Silence

Editura: ROSEN PUB GROUP

Anul aparitiei: 2010

A young Portuguese Jesuit, Sebastiao Rodrigues (based on the historical figure, Guiseppe Chiara), is sent to Japan to succor the local church and investigate reports that his mentor, Father Cristóvao Ferreira, has committed apostasy. (ferreira is a historical figure who apostatized after torture and later became a Zen Buddhist and wrote a treatise against Christianity). Father Rodrigues and his companion, Father Francisco Garrpe, arrive in Japan in 1638. There they find the local Christian population driven underground. Security officials force suspected Christians to trample on fumie, crudely carved images of Christ. Those who refuse are imprisoned and killed by anazuri, being hung upside down over a pit and slowly bled. Those Christians who do step on the image to stay alive are deeply shamed by their act of apostasy. The novel relates the trials of the Christians and increasing hardship suffered by Rodrigues, as more is learned about the circumstances of Ferreira's apostasy. Finally, Rodrigues is betrayed by the Judas-like Kichijiro.

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Silence

Editura: ZONDERVAN PUB HOUSE

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Shusaku Endo's New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times , now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver. " Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."- The New York Review of Books Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs. Shusaku Endo is one of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers of the twentieth century, and Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece.

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Silence

Editura: THAMES & HUDSON

Anul aparitiei: 2010

A young Portuguese Jesuit, Sebastiao Rodrigues (based on the historical figure, Guiseppe Chiara), is sent to Japan to succor the local church and investigate reports that his mentor, Father Cristóvao Ferreira, has committed apostasy. (ferreira is a historical figure who apostatized after torture and later became a Zen Buddhist and wrote a treatise against Christianity). Father Rodrigues and his companion, Father Francisco Garrpe, arrive in Japan in 1638. There they find the local Christian population driven underground. Security officials force suspected Christians to trample on fumie, crudely carved images of Christ. Those who refuse are imprisoned and killed by anazuri, being hung upside down over a pit and slowly bled. Those Christians who do step on the image to stay alive are deeply shamed by their act of apostasy. The novel relates the trials of the Christians and increasing hardship suffered by Rodrigues, as more is learned about the circumstances of Ferreira's apostasy. Finally, Rodrigues is betrayed by the Judas-like Kichijiro.

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Deep River

Editura: THAMES & HUDSON

Anul aparitiei: 2010

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 (Author)

The Samurai

Editura: THAMES & HUDSON

Anul aparitiei: 2010

In the 17th century, Hasekura and three other low-level samurai are sent to seek trade with Nueva Espana (today's Mexico). Accompanied by Father Velasco, a Franciscan missionary and interpreter, they pursue their mission from Nueva Espana to Spain. Along the way, they endure not only the hardships of the journey but Velasco's incessant proselytizing. The ambitious priest, who believes that their conversion will gain him the appointment as Bishop of Japan, convinces them that they will succeed only if they convert to Christianity, and reluctantly they agree. Failure, however, is their only reward.After years of wandering, they return to Japan, where they face shame and persecution. Basing his novel on the actual voyage of Hasekura, Shusaku Endomasterfully evokes the struggle between the Western individual and the Eastern collective identity and in so doing plumbs the depths of honor, faith, and human endurance. The result is an expansive audio book of astonishing power and insight."

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Song of Sadness

Editura: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR

Anul aparitiei: 2003

Song of Sadness is a kind of sequel to Endō's acclaimed early work, The Sea and Poison . Set in the 1970s, the novel revisits Dr. Suguro, now in late middle age, running a modest clinic in Tokyo's vibrant, seedy Shinjuku district and trying to put behind him a haunting experience from World War II. Weaving together multiple story lines, Endō lays before the reader a cross-section of Tokyo in the 1970s: a vain university professor who leads a humiliating double life; a crusading young reporter determined to pursue aging war criminals; two feckless college students as empty of ideals as they are of purpose; an old man dying of cancer; a quixotic foreigner named Gaston; and Suguro. With a vision as humane as it is unflinching, Endō examines the often impossible complexities of real forgiveness in a world of inscrutable cruelty and suffering.

Shusaku Endo (Author)

Song of Sadness

Editura: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR

Anul aparitiei: 2003

Song of Sadness is a kind of sequel to Endō's acclaimed early work, The Sea and Poison . Set in the 1970s, the novel revisits Dr. Suguro, now in late middle age, running a modest clinic in Tokyo's vibrant, seedy Shinjuku district and trying to put behind him a haunting experience from World War II. Weaving together multiple story lines, Endō lays before the reader a cross-section of Tokyo in the 1970s: a vain university professor who leads a humiliating double life; a crusading young reporter determined to pursue aging war criminals; two feckless college students as empty of ideals as they are of purpose; an old man dying of cancer; a quixotic foreigner named Gaston; and Suguro. With a vision as humane as it is unflinching, Endō examines the often impossible complexities of real forgiveness in a world of inscrutable cruelty and suffering.

Shusaku Endo (Author)

The Samurai

Editura: NEW DIRECTIONS

Anul aparitiei: 2018

In 1613, four low-ranking Japanese samurai, accompanied by a Spanish priest, set sail for Mexico to bargain for trading rights with the West in exchange for a Catholic crusade through Japan. Their arduous journey lasts four years, as they travel onward to Mexico then Rome, where they are persuaded that the success of their mission depends on their conversion to Christianity. In fact, the enterprise seems to have been futile from the start: the mission returns to Japan to find that the political tides have shifted. The authorities are now pursuing an isolationist policy and a ruthless stamping out of Western influences. In the face of disillusionment and death, the samurai can only find solace in a savior they're not sure they believe in.