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Summary:

"In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country. In the 1930s, two young Japanese Christians, Sachiko and Shūhei, are free to play with American children in their neighborhood. But life becomes increasingly difficult for them and other Christians after Japan launches wars of aggression. Meanwhile, a Polish Franciscan priest and former missionary in Nagasaki, Father Maximillian Kolbe, is arrested after returning to his homeland. Endō alternates scenes between Nagasaki-where the growing love between Sachiko and Shūhei is imperiled by mounting persecution-and Auschwitz, where the priest has been sent. Shūhei's dilemma deepens when he faces conscription into the Japanese military, conflicting with the Christian belief that killing is a sin. With the A-bomb attack on Nagasaki looming in the distance, Endō depicts ordinary people trying to live lives of faith in a wartime situation that renders daily life increasingly unbearable. Endō's compassion for his characters, reflecting their struggles to find and share love for others, makes Sachiko one of his most moving novels"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. His Arrival
• 2. Sachiko
• 3. Spy
• 4. Minor Secret
• 5. Dark Surging Waves
• 6. Place of Death
• 7. Student Dormitory
• 8. Conversation About Love
• 9. Anguish
• 10. Escape
• 11. Girlish Innocence
• 12. Summer Ablaze
• 13. Death of Kolbe
• 14. Step by Step
• 15. That Day
• 16. Decision
• 17. As Though There Were No War
• 18. Letters from Shuhei
• 19. Dark Days
• 20. 1944

• 21. And Sachiko
• 22. Requiem
• 23. August 9
• 24. Aftermath.

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Author/Creator:

Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996 , author

Contributors:

Gessel, Van C. , translator

Languages:

English
Japanese

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Translated from (original): Japanese

Main Work:

Onna no isshō [by Endō, S.] (English)

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Sachiko [by Endō, S.] (New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] — ISBN 9780231197304; LCCN 2019057063)

Related Series:

Weatherhead books on Asia

Subjects:

Women — Japan — Nagasaki-shi — Fiction

Christians — Japan — Nagasaki-shi — Fiction

General Notes:

Translated from the Japanese.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PL849.N4 O613 2020eb

ISBNs:

9780231552103 (electronic book)
0231552106 (electronic book)
9780231197304 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9780231197311 (trade paperback) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Recorded Books: EB00800424

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019057064

OCLC Numbers:

1131866126

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5978727 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp16812851