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Shūsaku Endō
Shūsaku Endō (遠藤 周作 / Endō Shūsaku) was a Japanese author who wrote from the rare perspective of a Japanese Roman Catholic. Together with Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, Shōtarō Yasuoka, Junzo Shono, Hiroyuki Agawa, Ayako Sono, and Shumon Miura, Endō is categorized as one of the "Third Generation", the... show more
Shūsaku Endō (遠藤 周作 / Endō Shūsaku) was a Japanese author who wrote from the rare perspective of a Japanese Roman Catholic. Together with Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, Shōtarō Yasuoka, Junzo Shono, Hiroyuki Agawa, Ayako Sono, and Shumon Miura, Endō is categorized as one of the "Third Generation", the third major group of writers who appeared after World War II.
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Birth date: March 27, 1923
Died: September 29, 1996
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 8 years ago
I received a copy for free from Bedford/St Martins. I’m pretty sure I am going to hell. I’ve read plenty of Saints lives, and there is one thing about Christian martyrs that puzzles me. If suicide is wrong, then isn’t martyrdom also wrong. Wait, wait. Hear me out. I know lying is wrong too, don’t ge...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 8 years ago
Many thanks to the More Historical Than Fiction book club for bringing this book to my attention. The premise of a story of catholic missionaries trying to spread Christianity in Japan really caught my interest because I have fond memories of reading Shogun, which featured a similar premise as a s...
Tannat
Tannat rated it 8 years ago
This depressing and mostly tedious book is about a 17th century Portuguese missionary priest in Japan. The topic of Christianity in Japan is in itself is somewhat interesting, I suppose, just because it’s not the type of thing I’d typically read but the book was mostly meh. Some interesting passages...
nouveau
nouveau rated it 11 years ago
it's been reported in literary papers or sections that an unofficial "twenty-year rule" applies to the Nobel Prize in Literature-- that is, every twenty years or so (unless it was every twenty-five years, and I'm misremembering), the Nobel Literature Prize committee "has" to award the prize to a Jap...
georginapenney37
georginapenney37 rated it 11 years ago
I'm giving this book 5 stars not because I enjoyed it. More because it's left such a lasting impression and I think it was a book that has shaped the way I think so powerfully that it deserves the rating.A record of torture on American POWs isn't exactly something one can enjoy but it serves as a po...
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