Suguro, a respected and famous Catholic writer, finds his life scandalized by accusations that he frequents the red-light district, and he soon discovers an imposter who forces him to question his own moral character
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'Endo's Catholicism and tireless grappling with the nature of guilt, sin, love and redemption, as well as the effortlessly luminous quality of his prose, meant that the writer he was most routinely compared with in the west was Graham Greene. But with its unsettling, dreamlike mood, playful self-referentiality and ingeniously engineered plot mechanics - Suguro is shown at his writing desk "hunched like a watchmaker" - Scandal might more usefully be compared to one of Paul Auster's metaphysical detective stories. ' Independent on Sunday --Independent on Sunday
However, Suguro's dreamlike wanderings through a Tokyo shrouded in snow and fog lend the novel an eerie beauty, which is matched by the chilly clarity of Endo's prose in Damian Flanagan's translation. At once a sinister thriller and an elegant disquisition on identity and the nature of evil, Scandal represents Endo's determination to turn the novelist's gaze inwards. It is not enough, he suggests, to look fiercely into the outer world; if the writer fails to recognize his own capacity for evil, he is ultimately a fraud. Olivia Laing, TLS --Times Literary Supplement
Scandal is a subtle, eerie and fascinating book by a writer of rare perception and disquieting honesty. John Walsh, London Evening Standard --London Evening Standard
SHUSAKU ENDO is widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese authors of the late twentieth century. Born in 1923, he won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. His novels, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, include The Sea and Poison, Wonderful Fool, Deep River and Silence. He died in 1996.
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