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Umfang: VIII, 312 S.

ISBN: 978-0-231-16282-1 , 978-0-231-53083-5

Serie: Weatherhead books on Asia

Anmerkung: "This translation is dedicated to the memory of Hondō Shun (1936-1997) a kind and gentle man who was nothing like his namesake in this novel.". - Enth. nur Teil 1 von Onna no isshō

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen

Mehr zum Autor: Endō, Shūsaku 1923-1996

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Umfang: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780231530835

Serie: Weatherhead Books on Asia

Inhalt: 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.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Mitsu and Kiku -- , The searcher -- , Nagasaki -- , The Road is long -- , The Temple of the Southern Barbarians -- , A Day of Hope -- , Spies -- , Battles in the Dark -- , The contest -- , Heavy rain -- , A chance encounter -- , The setting of the sun -- , The reunion -- , Separation -- , The crowd -- , Tsuwano -- , Maruyama -- , The valley of pain -- , Two kinds of love -- , A man named ITŌ -- , The blessed and the unblessed -- , Otome pass -- , The third winter -- , Snow and the blessed mother -- , Going home -- , Epilogue -- , Between the Lines: Author’s Afterword , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7312/endo16282

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/endo16282

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/endo16282

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Umfang: 1 online resource (329 p.)

ISBN: 0-231-53083-8

Serie: Weatherhead books on Asia

Inhalt: 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.

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Mitsu and Kiku -- , The searcher -- , Nagasaki -- , The Road is long -- , The Temple of the Southern Barbarians -- , A Day of Hope -- , Spies -- , Battles in the Dark -- , The contest -- , Heavy rain -- , A chance encounter -- , The setting of the sun -- , The reunion -- , Separation -- , The crowd -- , Tsuwano -- , Maruyama -- , The valley of pain -- , Two kinds of love -- , A man named ITŌ -- , The blessed and the unblessed -- , Otome pass -- , The third winter -- , Snow and the blessed mother -- , Going home -- , Epilogue -- , Between the Lines: Author's Afterword , Issued also in print. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 1-322-54199-X

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-231-16282-0

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7312/endo16282