Deep River (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Shūsaku Endō
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1984, with flashbacks to World War II
- Setting: India, Japan, and France
- Principal Characters: Isobe, Kiguchi, Numada, Mitsuko Naruse, Ōtsu
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, World War II, Religion, Christianity, India or East Indian people, Bereavement or grief, Japan or Japanese people, Buddhism
- Locales: France, Japan, India
In the course of a career spanning more than forty years, Shūsaku Endō has confirmed his position among the major Japanese novelists of his generation. If he remains less recognized than he ought to be in the United States, the availability of much of his work in English translation justifies the hope that he will find a growing audience. The work for which he is probably now best known to American readers is Silence (Chinmoku, 1966; translated 1969), which has made its way onto college reading lists.
American readers, and Westerners in general, will discover in...
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