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.
NEAR AND FAR EASTERN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)INDIA_FICTIONFICTION_GENERAL
RELEASED1995
PUBLISHERNew Directions
LENGTH222
LANGUAGEEN
Deep River
by Shusaku Endo, Van C. Gessel
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.
NEAR AND FAR EASTERN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)INDIA_FICTIONFICTION_GENERAL
RELEASED1995
PUBLISHERNew Directions
LENGTH222
LANGUAGEEN
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