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The Samurai (häftad, eng)
'Serious, theologically-charged fiction of the highest quality: full, bleak, richly particular'Kirkus Reviews
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'Serious, theologically-charged fiction of the highest quality: full, bleak, richly particular'Kirkus Reviews
Winner of the 1980 Noma Literary Prize - a darkly absorbing portrayal of the first Japanese voyage across the Pacific, by the author of Silence
In 17th-century Japan, a diplomatic mission sets sail for the West.
Among those facing the combined perils of the sea and foreign courts are ambitious Spanish missionary Pedro Velasco, and Hasekura Rokuemon, a disregarded samurai determined to recover his family's standing. They travel to Mexico City, Rome and back - but Japan's new rulers are persecuting Christians, and if the men survive the journey, they may not survive their homecoming.
This true story of courage and endurance is told with Endo's signature power and simplicity.
Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.
Translated by Van C.
Gessel.
SHUSAKU ENDO (1923-1996) was one of the greatest novelists of postwar Japan. Baptised as a Roman Catholic as a child, his work explores the relationship between East and West from his unique perspective as a Japanese Christian. Endo won the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Literary Prize, was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times, and received an Order of the Culture from the Japanese government.
Among his other novels are Deep River, The Sea and Poison, and his masterpiece Silence, all published by or forthcoming from Pushkin Press.
VAN C. GESSEL (b. 1950) is the former Dean of the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University, and the foremost translator into English of the work of Shusaku Endo.
He holds a doctorate in Japanese literature from Columbia University, and in 2018 received Japan's Order of the Rising Sun for his contribution as a translator of Japanese literature.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 368 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Pushkin Press |
Utgivningsdatum | 2024-11-21 |
ISBN | 9781805330387 |
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- Format Pocket
- Antal sidor 288
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Faber & Faber
- Utgivningsdatum 2024-11-21
- ISBN 9781805330387
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Pocket
- Antal sidor 288
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Faber & Faber
- Utgivningsdatum 2024-11-21
- ISBN 9781805330387