Stained Glass Elegies
The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer.The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less...
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The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer.The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less familiar. The dozen stories of Stained Glass Elegies, selected by the author together with his translator, display the full range of Endo's talents in short fiction.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780811211420 (0811211428)
Publish date: October 17th 1990
Publisher: New Directions
Pages no: 165
Edition language: English
Is your faith strong enough to withstand repeated beatings, starvation, torture and all the myriad of methods, one human being can devise to hurt and scar another?What if, they came for your family, friends, or even your neighbours?Now what if come this moment, this brutal challenge to your beliefs,...