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While visiting a middle-class Japanese family, Gaston Bonaparte attempts to apply Christian charity to the downtrodden of Tokyo
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'Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists.' -- Graham Greene
'The Japanese writer who appeals most to an audience outside Japan. Everything I have read of Endo's is memorable. He never disappoints.' -- Anthony Thwaites
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'The Japanese writer who appeals most to an audience outside Japan. Everything I have read of Endo's is memorable. He never disappoints.' -- Anthony Thwaites
Known as the 'Japanese Graham Greene' Shusaku Endo was born in Tokyo in 1923. Widely regarded as the most distinguished of contemporary Japanese writers he won many major literary prizes during his lifetime. His books, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, include Silence, The Sea and Poison, Deep River, Scandal and The Samurai. Short-listed for the Nobel Prize on several occasions, he was elected to the Nihon Geijutsuin, the Japanese Arts Academy in 1981 and was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.
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- PublisherHarpercollins
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 006859853X
- ISBN 13 9780068598534
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