Five by Endo

Five by Endo
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2000
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811214391

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.

The Samurai

The Samurai
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811213462

Considered one of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, THE SAMURAI seamlessly combines historical fact with a novelist's imaginings. Set in the period preceding the Christian persecutions in Japan recorded so memorably in Endo's SILENCE, this book traces the steps of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil.

Know Your Endo

Know Your Endo
Author: Jessica Murnane
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0593189833

Learn how to navigate your life with endometriosis in this essential and hopeful guide--including tools and strategies to gain a deeper understanding of your body and manage chronic pain through diet, movement, stress management, and more. Endometriosis isn’t just about having “painful periods.” It can be a complex, debilitating, and all-encompassing condition that impacts one’s mental health, relationships, and career. Endo affects 1 in 10 women and girls across the globe, but even after receiving a diagnosis, many are still left in the dark about their condition. In Know Your Endo, Jessica Murnane breaks through the misinformation and gives essential guidance, encouragement, and practical lifestyle tools to help those living with endo have more control and feel better in their bodies. In this empowering and heartfelt guide, Jessica, who suffers from endo herself, shares a progressive five-week plan focused on learning a new management tool each week. Including sections on diet (with recipes!), movement, products, and personal-care rituals, Know Your Endo eases readers into a new lifestyle and arms them with the information needed to truly understand their condition. Insights and help from endometriosis doctors and experts are woven throughout, as well as first-person accounts of how endo can impact every aspect of your life. Finally, there’s a resource for all people suffering in silence from this chronic condition offering what they need most: hope.

Stained Glass Elegies

Stained Glass Elegies
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811211420

The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer.

White Man, Yellow Man

White Man, Yellow Man
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1587683709

White Man/Yellow Man, by one of Japan's most celebrated writers, gathers into one volume two novellas set during World War II one in France, one in Japan.

Wonderful Fool

Wonderful Fool
Author: 遠藤周作
Publisher: PeriplusEdition
Total Pages: 237
Release: 1974
Genre: Japan
ISBN: 9784805303764

Sachiko

Sachiko
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0231552106

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.

The Final Martyrs

The Final Martyrs
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811218115

An affirmation of faith and identity by Japan's leading Christian novelist.

The Sea and Poison

The Sea and Poison
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811211987

Dr. Suguru, a competent physician, serves his internship during the war in a hospital where senior staff are more interested in career-building than in healing.

Kiku's Prayer

Kiku's Prayer
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2012-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0231530838

Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to recant under torture. Kiku's efforts to reconcile her feelings for Seikichi's religion with the sacrifices she makes to free him mirror the painful, conflicting choices Japan faced as a result of exposure to modernity and the West. Seikichi's persecution exemplifies Japan's insecurities, and Kiku's tortured yet determined spirit represents the nation's resilient soul. Set in the turbulent years of the transition from the shogunate to the Meiji Restoration, Kiku's Prayer embodies themes central to Endo Shusaku's work, including religion, modernization, and the endurance of the human spirit. Yet this novel is much more than a historical allegory. It acutely renders one woman's troubled encounter with passion and spirituality at a transitional time in her life and in the history of her people. A renowned twentieth-century Japanese author, Endo wrote from the perspective of being both Japanese and Catholic. His work is often compared with that of Graham Greene, who himself considered Endo one of the century's finest writers.