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In 1613, with plans to open a trade route between Mexico and Japan, four Samurai and an ambitious Franciscan missionary embark on a journey that takes them to Mexico and Rome and back again to a Japan torn by strife
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'Ambitious and moving... the writing is memorable in its impact.' - Barbara Trapido, SPECTATOR 'Endo has called it [THE SAMURAI] "in some ways an autobiographical novel", and the kinds of shock experienced by the samurai can be transposed into Endo's own coming to terms with the world outside Japan. He has been called 'the Japanese Graham Greene' and indeed Greene is a great admirer. But Endo is really like no-one else.' - Anthony Thwaite, OBSERVER 'A wry and sometimes bitter meditation on the nature of cultural values... Sensational events or powerful images are pictured rather than expressed, so that they come to resemble Japanese haiku. It is because of Endo's restraint that THE SAMURAI is in the end so convincing.' - Peter Ackroyd, SUNDAY TIMES 'Entirely successful... a narrative of austere power.' - Adam Mars Jones, FINANCIAL TIMES 'Genius... This novelist has the gift of imposing on history a puzzled modern order, a questioning morality that makes the imagination take wing.' - MAIL ON SUNDAY
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The Samurai, without doubt one of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, seamlessly combines historical fact with novelist's imaginings. Set in the period preceding the Christian persecutions in Japan, The Samurai traces the steps of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil. Rokuemon Hasekura, a low-ranking warrior, is chosen as one of Japan's envoys to the Viceroy of Mexico and Pope Paul V. The emissaries set sail in 1613, accompanied by an ambitious Franciscan missionary who hopes to bargain trading privileges with the West for the right to head his order in Japan. The arduous journey lasts four years, and the Japanese travel from Mexico to Rome, where they are persuaded that the success of their mission depends on their conversion willy-nilly to Christianity. In fact, the enterprise has been futile from the start and the mission returns to Japan where the political tides have shifted: the authorities are pursuing an isolationist policy and a ruthless stamping out of all Western influences. In the face of disillusionment and death, samurai Rokuemon's only support and solace come from the spiritual lord he is not even sure he believes in.
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- PublisherRandom House USA Inc
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0394727266
- ISBN 13 9780394727264
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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