Kiku's prayer : a novel /

Endo Shusaku was a renowned twentieth-century Japanese author who wrote from the unusual perspective of being both Japanese and Catholic. His work is often compared to that of Graham Greene, who himself considered Endo one of the century's finest writers. A historical novel set in the turbulent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Gessel, Van C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Colección:Weatherhead books on Asia.
Temas:
1800-1899
Young women > Fiction.
Christianity > Fiction.
Persecution > Japan > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Jeunes femmes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Christianisme > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION > General.
FICTION > Religious.
Christianity
Persecution
Young women
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) > Fiction.
Japan
Japan > Nagasaki-shi
Fiction
History
Religious fiction.
Historical fiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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