Song of Sadness: Volume 47 by Endô, Shûsaku

Song of Sadness: Volume 47 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781929280216)

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Format: Hardcover
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Song of Sadness: Volume 47 by Endô, Shûsaku

Song of Sadness: Volume 47

$45.00
Song of Sadness: Volume 47 by Endô, Shûsaku

Song of Sadness: Volume 47

$45.00
Format: Hardcover
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Song of Sadness is a kind of sequel to Endō's acclaimed early work, The Sea and Poison. Set in the 1970s, the novel revisits Dr. Suguro, now in late middle age, running a modest clinic in Tokyo's vibrant, seedy Shinjuku district and trying to put behind him a haunting experience from World War II. Weaving together multiple story lines, Endō lays before the reader a cross-section of Tokyo in the 1970s: a vain university professor who leads a humiliating double life; a crusading young reporter determined to pursue aging war criminals; two feckless college students as empty of ideals as they are of purpose; an old man dying of cancer; a quixotic foreigner named Gaston; and Suguro. With a vision as humane as it is unflinching, Endō examines the often impossible complexities of real forgiveness in a world of inscrutable cruelty and suffering.

Author: Shûsaku Endô, Shusaku Endo
ISBN-10: 1929280211
ISBN-13: 9781929280216
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2003
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.90d
By Shûsaku Endô
By Shûsaku Endô
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Endō Shūsaku (1923-96), one of the giants of modern Japanese literature, won the Akutagawa Prize in 1955 for his novella "White Men," the Mainichi and Shincho Prizes in 1958 for his novel The Sea and Poison, and the Tanizaki Prize in 1966 fo

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