- Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Japan, fiction
In 1613 Father Pedro Velasco's dream came true. He set sail with a small group of Japanese Samurai for Mexico, Spain and Rome. Velasco knew Japanese, and his zealous hope was to become primate over a converted, Catholic Japan. His mission, with the Samurai, was to bargain for a Catholic crusade through Japan in exchange for Japanese trading rights with the West. It was a journey of incredible danger and hardship, underwritten solely by faith...
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Shūsaku Endō
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, New Directions, Penguin
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- Japanese, English, gre
- ISBN
- 9780394727264
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