japanese literature in english

The final martyrs

Translated by: Van C. Gessel

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Eleven stories by a cosmopolitan Japanese writer. The title story is on the persecution of Christians in Japan; Japanese in Warsaw is on pimping for tourists; Adieu, set in France, is on old age; and Shadows is a young man’s cry from the heart when his role model, a Spanish priest, abandons the church for a woman. By the author of The Golden Country.

Japanese title: Saigo no junkyosha
Subjects: Short stories, Japanese
Shusaku Endo, Translations into English
Notes: Japanese title: Saigo no junkyosha. Contents: The final martyrs, Shadows, A fifty-year-old man, Adieu, Heading home, Japanese in Warsaw, Life, A sixty-year-old man, The last supper, A woman called Shizu, The box. Introduction by Caryl Phillips.
Description: 199 S ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9780811212724
OCLC Number: 695022548
Genre: Fiction
Document Type: Book
Publisher: New Directions, 1994, 2009
Publication Place: New York
English Publication Date: 1994

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