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Deep River Hardcover - 1994
by Endo, Shusaku
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- Hardcover
- first
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Details
- Title Deep River
- Author Endo, Shusaku
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First American edition
- Condition Used - Very Good +
- Pages 222
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Directions, New York
- Date 1994
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # 11027
- ISBN 9780811212892 / 0811212890
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.9 in (21.84 x 14.73 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94038913
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
Thirty years lie between the leading contemporary Japanese writer Shusaku Endo's justly famed Silence and his powerful new novel Deep River, a book which is both a summation and a pinnacle of his work. The river is the Ganges, where a group of Japanese tourists converge: Isobe, grieving the death of the wife he ignored in life; Kiguchi, haunted by wartime memories of the Highway of Death in Burma; Numanda, recovering from a critical illness; Mitsuko, a cynical woman struggling with inner emptiness; and butt of her cruel interest, Otsu, a failed seminarian for whom the figure on the cross is a god of many faces. Bringing these and other characters to vibrant life and evoking a teeming India so vividly that the reader is almost transported there, Endo reaches his ultimate religious vision, one that combines Christian faith with Buddhist acceptance.
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Citations
- Booklist, 03/15/1995, Page 1307
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/1995, Page 89
- Library Journal, 02/15/1995, Page 180
- LJ Best Books of Year, 01/01/1996, Page 48
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1995, Page 76