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Summary:

Review: "Here gathered in this small volume are five of the Japanese writer Shusaku Endo's short stories exemplifying his style and his interests, presenting, as it were, Endo in a nutshell. "Unzen," the opening story, touches on the subject of Silence, Endo's most famous novel - that is the torture and martyrdom of Christians in seventeenth-century Japan. Next comes "A Fifty-year-old Man" in which Mr. Chiba takes up ballroom dancing and faces the imminent death of his brother and his dog Whitey. In "Japanese in Warsaw" a business man has a strange encounter; in "The Box" an old photo album and a few postcards have a tale to reveal. Finally included is "The Case of Isobe," the opening chapter of Endo's wonderful novel Deep River."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents:

• Unzen
• A fifty-year-old man
• Japanese in Warsaw
• The box
• The case of Isobe.

Author/Creator:

Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996

Contributors:

Gessel, Van C.

Languages:

English
Japanese

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Translated from (original): Japanese

Main Work:

Five by Endo: stories [by Endō, S.]

Subjects:

Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996 — Translations into English

Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996

Genres:

Translations

Physical Description:

84 pages ; 18 cm

Call Numbers:

PL849.N4 A23 2000

ISBNs:

0811214397 (pbk., alk.)
9780811214391 (pbk., alk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

99056269

OCLC Numbers:

42810750