Kiku's Prayer: A Novel
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Main Author: Endō, Shūsaku 1923-1996 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press 2013
Series:Weatherhead Books on Asia
Online Access:DE-1043
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Endo Shusaku was a renowned twentieth-century Japanese author who wrote from the unusual perspective of being both Japanese and Catholic. His work is often compared to that of Graham Greene, who himself considered Endo one of the century's finest writers. A historical novel set in the turbulent period between the fall of the shogunate and the Meiji Restoration, Kiku's Prayer embodies themes central to Endo's work, including religion, modernization, and the endurance of the human spirit. In Japan, the book is considered one of his late masterpieces and has never before been translated into Engl
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (329 p)
ISBN:9780231530835

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