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Books by Shusaku Endo
  | | Jesus the Bridegroom The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Shusaku Endo, William Johnston, Professor Martin Scorsese, Shausaku Endao, Martin Scorsese . Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Picador Modern Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-250-08224-4, ISBN: 1-250-08224-2 "Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Times Book Review Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to pu ..." |
 | | Scandal (Peter Owen Modern Classics) by Shusaku Endo, Van C. Gessel, Damian Flanagan Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by Peter Owen Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7206-1241-7, ISBN: 0-7206-1241-1 "Suguro is an eminent Catholic novelist, about to receive a major literary award. So when a drunk woman he has never met before approaches him at the award ceremony, claiming she knows him well from his regular visits to Tokyo's red-light district, she must surely be mistaken? But with a scurrilous press campaign damaging Suguro's reputation, his sleazy doppelgänger appears more and more, as if deliberately trying to discredit him. He is ..." |
 | | The Samurai(Reprint) (New Directions Classics) by Shusaku Endo, Van C. Gessel Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2790-2, ISBN: 0-8112-2790-1 "One of the finest novels, from “a masterly historical writer” (David Mitchell) In 1613, four low-ranking Japanese samurai, accompanied by a Spanish priest, set sail for Mexico to bargain for trading rights with the West in exchange for a Catholic crusade through Japan. Their arduous journey lasts four years, as they travel onward to Mexico then Rome, where they are persuaded that the success of their mission depends on their conversion ..." |
 | | The Girl I Left Behind by Shusaku Endo, Mark Williams Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2010 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1773-6, ISBN: 0-8112-1773-6 "A romance about abandonment and guilt. Prefiguring themes of his later work, the acclaimed Japanese writer Shusaku Endo here writes of choices made by young adults learning who they are and what they want in life. Yoshioka Tstomu is a student, not much interested in his studies, short on cash and long on sexual desire. Eventually he will settle down in a career and marry his boss’s niece. Yet he begins to hear a voice in his head that s ..." |
 | | Deep River(Reprint) by Shusaku Endo, Van C. Gessel Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1995 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1320-2, ISBN: 0-8112-1320-X "Even in his dreams he saw the pallid face of Jacques Monge, the brilliant upper classman who had berated him incessantly in the religious community at Lyon. ' God was fostered in this world of ours. In this Europe you detest so.' 'I don't believe that. After he was crucified in Jerusalem, he began to wander through many lands. Even today he roams through various countries. Through India and Vietnam, through China, Korea, Taiwan.' 'E ..." |
 | | A Life of Jesus by Shusaku Endo, Richard Schuchert, R. A. Schuchert Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1978 by Paulist Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8091-2319-3, ISBN: 0-8091-2319-3 ""the New Covenant," appellations identical with what the early Christian community called itself. Second, both communities resembled each other in promulgating a system of common life in which the members donated all they possessed to ..." |
 | | The Final Martyrs (New Directions Paperbook) by Shusaku Endo, Van C. Gessel, Caryl Phillips Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1811-5, ISBN: 0-8112-1811-2 "All the salient qualities that distinguish the superb work of Japanese writer Shusaku Endo are on full display in this new collection of eleven stories written over the course of almost thirty years. The themes are akin to those in the author's novels (Silence and The Sea and Poison, for example): the martyrdom of Roman Catholics in Japan; coming to terms with old age - a compound of infirmity, fear, and pangs of nostalgia; the incongru ..." |
 | | Silence(Tie-In Edition) A Novel (Picador Modern Classics) by Shusaku Endo, William Johnston, Martin Scorsese, Stephen Morrison, Shausaku Endao, Professor Martin Scorsese Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Picador Modern Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-250-08227-5, ISBN: 1-250-08227-7 "Shusaku Endo's New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Review of BooksSeventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the fait ..." |
 | | When I Whistle(Reprint) by Shusaku Endo Paperback, 277 Pages, Published 2012 by Peter Owen Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7206-1437-4, ISBN: 0-7206-1437-6 "One of Endo's most unusual and powerful novels is set largely in a modern hospital, with themes and scenes that eerily seem to predate Never Let Me Go A jaded businessman has a chance encounter with the doctor son of his best friend at school, Ozu, and memories are stirred of a former love interest of Ozu's, Aiko. The son of his friend proves to be contemptuous of the outmoded values of his father's world and ruthless in pursuit of succ ..." |
 | | The Sea and Poison(Reprint) A Novel (New Directions Paperbook) by Shusaku Endo, Michael Gallagher Paperback, 175 Pages, Published 1992 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1198-7, ISBN: 0-8112-1198-3 "The novel The Sea and Poison won the Akutagawa Prize when it was published in Japan in 1958 and established Shusaku Endo in the forefront of modern Japanese literature.The Sea and Poison was the first Japanese book to confront the problem of individual responsibility in wartime, painting a searing picture of the human race’s capacity for inhumanity. At the outset of this powerful story we find a Doctor Suguro in a backwater of modern-da ..." |
 | | The Samurai(Reprint) (New Directions Classic) by Van C. Gessel, Shusaku Endo Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1997 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1346-2, ISBN: 0-8112-1346-3 "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 ..." |
 | | The Girl I Left Behind(1st Edition) by Shusaku Endo, Mark Williams Hardcover, 194 Pages, Published 1995 by New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1303-5, ISBN: 0-8112-1303-X "An early novel written some 30 years ago, The Girl I Left Behind tells of the choices made by young adults who are learning who they are and what they want in life. Endo's compact, emotionally lacerating novel Silence is currently being made into a film by Martin Scorsese." |
 | | Silence(11th Edition) by Shusaku Endo, William Endo Johnston, Shausaku Endao Paperback, 201 Pages, Published 1980 by Taplinger Publishing Company ISBN-13: 978-0-8008-7186-4, ISBN: 0-8008-7186-3 "Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Purtuguese missionary in Japan administers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ." |
 | | Sachiko A Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Shusaku Endo, Van Gessel Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2020 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-19731-1, ISBN: 0-231-19731-4 "In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country.In the 1930s, two young Japanese Christians, Sachiko and Shūhei, are free to play with American child ..." |
 | | Deep River(Updated) by Shusaku Endo, Van C. Gessel Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1995 by New Directions Import ISBN-13: 978-0-340-63771-5, ISBN: 0-340-63771-4 "In this moving novel, a group of Japanese tourists, each of whom is wrestling with his or her own demons, travels to the River Ganges on a pilgrimage of grace." |
 | | Stained Glass Elegies Stories (New Directions Revived Modern Classics) by Shusaku Endo, Van C. Gessel Paperback, 165 Pages, Published 1990 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1142-0, ISBN: 0-8112-1142-8 "Instinctively, Suguro looked away. . . . 'We've just come back from Izu,' Yasuko was saying. 'No, not to the hot springs. I went along to carry his golf-clubs. Have you noticed I've started putting on weight? Well, he encouraged me to take up golf, since absolutely everybody is playing golf these days. But I hate doing what everyone else is doing. ...' Suguro's wife listened to her cousin's words with that same smile on her face. A ..." |
 | | SAMURAI (Aventura) by Shusaku Endo Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1984 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-394-72726-4, ISBN: 0-394-72726-6 " In the 17th century, Hasekura and three other low-level samurai are sent to seek trade with Nueva España (today's Mexico). Accompanied by Father Velasco, a Franciscan missionary and interpreter, they pursue their mission from Nueva España to Spain. Along the way, they endure not only the hardships of the journey but Velasco's incessant proselytizing. The ambitious priest, who believes that their conversion will gain him the appointment ..." |
 | | Kiku's Prayer A Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Shusaku Endo, Van C. Gessel Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2012 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-16282-1, ISBN: 0-231-16282-0 "Endo Shusaku was a renowned twentieth-century Japanese author who wrote from the unusual perspective of being both Japanese and Catholic. His work is often compared to that of Graham Greene, who himself considered Endo one of the century's finest writers. A historical novel set in the turbulent period between the fall of the shogunate and the Meiji Restoration, Kiku's Prayer embodies themes central to Endo's work, including religion, m ..." |
 | | Volcano(Reprint) by Shusaku Endo, Richard A. Schuchert, Shausaku Endao Paperback, 175 Pages, Published 2012 by Peter Owen Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7206-1430-5, ISBN: 0-7206-1430-9 "From the author of Silence, this powerful novel of ideas is also a sensitive and moving depiction of the trials of old age, set in the central region of Japan With two masterly portraits of two men who have lived their lives—both physically and metaphorically—under the shadow of the Akadeke volcano, this crucial work in Endo's oeuvre charts the conflicts between them, which have explosive results. This is the first paperback edition of ..." |
 | | Foreign Studies(Updated) (Peter Owen Modern Classic) by Shusaku Endo, Mark Williams Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2009 by Peter Owen Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7206-1226-4, ISBN: 0-7206-1226-8 "In the early 1950s, Shusaku Endo spent several years as an exchange student studying in Paris. Around him existentialism, Sartre, and Beckett were making the city the literary and philosophical capital of the world. But for Endo, the experience was deeply alienating, and he came away infected with tuberculosis, his studies incomplete, and having convinced himself that there could be no cultural commerce between East and West. Foreign St ..." |
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