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Shusaku Endo - Portraits of a Mother, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Portraits of a Mother

A Novella and Stories

Av Shusaku Endo

Del i serien Margellos World Republic of Letters

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From beloved Japanese author Shūsaku Endō, a newly discovered novella and five short stories of love, grief, and maternal longing  Shūsaku Endō, widely considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, is known for his historical novels, which masterfully probe the encounters between the cultures and religions of East and West from a Japanese Catholic perspective. A salient and curious theme in his work is the unique image of a maternal God, and a concomitant sense of loss and longing for maternal love.  Confronting the Shadows, the semiautobiographical novella discovered at the Endō Museum in Nagasaki in 2020, is Endō’s most personal work and the interpretive key to his entire oeuvre. It tells the story of Suguro, an aspiring novelist who was separated from his mother after his parents’ divorce. Desperate to understand the woman his mother was, he sets out to retrace her footsteps, only to find himself face to face with his own demons. Accompanying the novella are five stories, each disclosing the intricacies of the sacred feminine and the apprehensions and joys of familial love. Endō once again beams bright light into the hidden corners of the human heart in this remarkable new collection.
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Shūsaku Endō (1923–1996) was a renowned Japanese author. His many books include Silence, The Samurai, Deep River, and The Sea and Poison. Van C. Gessel is a professor in the department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University. Caryl Phillips is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and playwright.

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Praise for Shūsaku Endō:“[Endō is] a master of the interior monologue.”—New York Times Book Review“A writer of rare perception and disquieting honesty.”—Evening Standard“One of Japan’s greatest twentieth-century writers.”—Publishers Weekly“I think about Silence, and Endō’s work more generally, all the time.”―Phil Klay, author of Redeployment and Winner of the 2014 National Book Award“Endō is to my mind one of the finest living novelists.”―Graham Greene, author of The Power and the Glory“A masterly historical writer.”—David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas“[Confronting the Shadows is] not juvenilia from the start of Endō’s career, or a wistful late autumnal flourish. This is a writer working at the height of his powers.”—from the foreword by Caryl Phillips“Endō is a consummate writer who, as a master photographer, brings intense sentiment, character, and movement out of the subtle light and shadows that he focuses around his subject.”―Choice

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