Kiku's Prayer : A Novel /

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Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to recant under torture. Kiku's efforts to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Endō, Shūsaku (Autor)
Otros Autores: Gessel, Van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2012]
Colección:Weatherhead Books on Asia
Temas:
Christianity > Fiction.
Persecution > Japan > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Young women > Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Mitsu and Kiku
  • The searcher
  • Nagasaki
  • The Road is long
  • The Temple of the Southern Barbarians
  • A Day of Hope
  • Spies
  • Battles in the Dark
  • The contest
  • Heavy rain
  • A chance encounter
  • The setting of the sun
  • The reunion
  • Separation
  • The crowd
  • Tsuwano
  • Maruyama
  • The valley of pain
  • Two kinds of love
  • A man named ITŌ
  • The blessed and the unblessed
  • Otome pass
  • The third winter
  • Snow and the blessed mother
  • Going home
  • Epilogue
  • Between the Lines: Author's Afterword

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