DEEP RIVER

Endo, Shusaku and Van C. Gessel (translator)

ISBN 10: 0811212890 / ISBN 13: 9780811212892

Published by New Directions, New York, 1994

About this Item

216pp. Hardcover in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very Good.

Seller Inventory # 100613

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DEEP RIVER
• Publisher: New Directions, New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811212890
• ISBN 13: 9780811212892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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 war-time memories of the Highway of Death in Burma; Numada, recovering from a critical illness; Mitsuko, a cynical woman struggling with inner emptiness; and, the butt of her cruel interest, Otsu, a failed seminarian for whom the figure on the cross is a god of many faces. In this novel, the renowned Japanese writer Shusaku Endo reaches his ultimate religious vision.

About the Authors

Shusaku Endo (1923–1996) is widely regarded as one of the most important Japanese authors of the late twentieth century. He won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. His novel Silence was recently made into a major film directed by Martin Scorsese.

Van C. Gessel is a professor of Japanese at Brigham Young University, and has a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University. After joining the Church of Latter-day Saints in 1968, Gessel served as a missionary to Japan from 1970-71. He was given a lifetime achievement award from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture of Columbia University for his translations of modern Japanese fiction.