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Endo's masterly novel that has been compared to Dostoevsky's The Idiot. 'Everything I have read of Endo's is memorable. He never disappoints.' - Anthony Thwaite

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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
About the Author:
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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  • PublisherPeter Owen
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 0720613205
  • ISBN 13 9780720613209
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number3
  • Number of pages240
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