ENDO SHUSAKU

Σκάνδαλο
Ο Σουγκούρο είναι ένας διαπρεπής Ιάπωνας μυθιστοριογράφος, χριστιανός, με ευυπόληπτο συζυγικό βίο και στα πρόθυρα των γηρατειών. Έτσι, η μεθυσμένη γυναίκα που τον πλησιάζει σε μία τελετή απονομής λογοτεχνικών βραβείων, ισχυριζόμενη ότι τον γνωρίζει από τις συχνές του επισκέψεις στην περιοχή των πορνείων του Τόκιο, θα πρέπει σίγουρα να σφάλλει. Όμως, οι αναφορές σε νέες εμφανίσεις του κι ένας κακόβουλος δημοσιογράφος που προσπαθεί να τον εκθέσει παρουσιάζοντάς τον ως απατεώνα, αναγκάζουν τον Σουγκούρο να κάνει ένα φοβερό ταξίδι στα κακόφημα...
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(P/B) THE SAMURAI
In 1613 the missionary Father Pedro Velasco's dream comes true. For the first time, the Japanese are going to cross the Pacific Ocean. And he is going with them. As he sets sail with a group of Samurai, for Mexico, then Spain and finally Rome, his zealous hope is that, by opening up relations with the western world, Japan will become ripe for conversion to Christianity - with him as Bishop. But fate has other plans for Father Velasco. A gripping portrayal of an extraordinary historical voyage, filled with danger and hardship, The Samurai i...
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(P/B) SILENCE
"Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And I keep turning over in my mind the thought that I am at the end of the earth, in a place which you do not know and which your whole lives through you will never visit." It is 1640 and Father Sebastian Rodrigues, an idealistic Jesuit priest, sets sale for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Christians there. He is also desperate to discover the truth about his former mentor, rumoured to have renounced his faith under torture. Ro...
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(H/B) SILENCE
A special hardback edition of Shusaku Endo's masterpiece Silence to mark the release of Martin Scorsese's screen adaptation starring Liam Neeson, Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield. In 1637 two Portuguese missionaries undertake a perilous search for their tutor missing on the hostile island of Japan. If discovered, they face the same fate as other practising Christians - torture at the hands of the Shogun and his Samurai, until they renounce their Christian faith. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) WONDERFUL FOOL
Gaston Bonaparte, a young Frenchman, visits Tokyo to stay with his pen-friend Takamori. His appearance is a bitter disappointment to his new friends and his behaviour causes them acute embarrassment. He is a trusting person with a simple love for others and continues to trust even after they have demonstrated deceit and betrayal. He spends his time not sightseeing but making friends with street children, stray dogs, prostitutes and gangsters. Endo charts his misadventures with sharp irony, satire and objectivity. (From the publisher)...
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ΣΙΩΠΗ
Ένας ιδεαλιστής Πορτογάλος ιεραπόστολος, ο ιησουίτης Σεμπαστιάου Ροντρίγκες, φτάνει στην Ιαπωνία του 1640 για να συμπαρασταθεί στους καταπιεζόμενους χριστιανούς Ιάπωνες, αλλά και να ανακαλύψει την αλήθεια που κρύβεται πίσω από την αποστασία του προκατόχου του, του έμπειρου ιεραπόστολου Φερέιρα, ο οποίος δεν άντεξε το μαρτύριο «του λάκκου» στο Ναγκασάκι. Ο Ροντρίγκες θα βρεθεί, κι αυτός, πολύ γρήγορα μπροστά σε τρομερά ηθικά διλήμματα: θα βρεθεί, όμως, κυρίως μπροστά στη σιωπή, στη σιωπή του Θεού, ο οποίος μοιάζει να αποδέχεται τα φριχτά εγ...
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(P/B) SCANDAL
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 doppelganger appears more and more, as if deliberately trying to discredit him. He is sighted touring the love hotels and brothels of Shinjuku; a leering portrait of him appears in an exhibi...
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(P/B) SILENCE
Silence is the most important novel of the acclaimed Japanese author Shusaku Endo. It caused a major controversy in Japan following its publication in 1967. A Japanese Catholic, Endo tells the story of two seventeenth-century missionaries attempting to shore up the oppressed Japanese Christian movement. Father Rodrigues has come to Japan to find the truth behind unthinkable rumours that his famous teacher Ferreira has renounced his faith. But after his arrival he discovers that the only way to help the brutally persecuted Christians may be...
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(P/B) THE SAMURAI
In 1613, four low-ranking Japanese Samurai, accompanied by a Spanish priest, set sail for Mexico on an unprecedented mission: to bargain for a Catholic crusade through Japan in exchange for trading rights with the West. Among the first Japanese ever to set foot in Europe, they travel to Rome and gain an audience with the Pope. All are baptized, hoping to curry favour with their European hosts. But upon returning to Japan, they discover that the Shoguns no longer wish to forge links with the West, nor will they tolerate the Christian religi...
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(P/B) FOREIGN STUDIES
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 convinced that there could be no cultural commerce between East and West. Foreign Studies consists of three linked narratives exploring this theme. The first part, 'A Summer in Rouen', concerns Kudo, a Japanes...
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