Shusaku Endo, Van C. Gessel (trns.)

The Final Martyrs

New York: New Directions, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. First American printing. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket with black slash mark on bottom. Hardcover. 199 pp. All the salient qualities that distinguish the superb work of Japanese writer Shusaku Endo are on full display in this new collection of eleven stories written over the course of almost thirty years. The themes include the martyrdom of Roman Catholics in Japan; coming to terms with old age; pangs of nostalgia; spiritual doubt and sexual yearning; and elements of autobiography from Endo's lonely childhood. Fine / fine. Item #E33572

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