Deep river / Shusaku Endo ; translated by Van C. Gessel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996

Contributor:

Gessel, Van C.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Directions paperbook ; NDP820.

A New Directions paperbook ; NDP820

Standardized Title:

Dīpu ribā. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Japanese fiction--India.

Japanese fiction.

India--Fiction.

India.

Japanese.

Genre:

Fiction.

Religious fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

216 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, [1994, 1996]

Summary:

Thirty years lie between the leading contemporary Japanese writer Shusaku Endo's justly famed Silence and his powerful new novel Deep River, a book which is both a summation and a pinnacle of his work. The river is the Ganges, where a group of Japanese tourists converge: Isobe, grieving the death of the wife he ignored in life; Kiguchi, haunted by wartime memories of the Highway of Death in Burma; Numanda, recovering from a critical illness; Mitsuko, a cynical woman struggling with inner emptiness; and butt of her cruel interest, Otsu, a failed seminarian for whom the figure on the cross is a god of many faces. Bringing these and other characters to vibrant life and evoking a teeming India so vividly that the reader is almost transported there, Endo reaches his ultimate religious vision, one that combines Christian faith with Buddhist acceptance.

ISBN:

081121320X

9780811213202

0811212890

9780811212892

OCLC:

39334775