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The Girl I Left Behind Hardcover - 1995

by Endo, Shusaku

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An early novel written some 30 years ago, The Girl I Left Behind tells of the choices made by young adults who are learning who they are and what they want in life. Endo's compact, emotionally lacerating novel Silence is currently being made into a film by Martin Scorsese.

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New York: New Directions, 1995. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing of First New Directions Edition, First US Edition, 1995. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Fine Condition. Japanese Literature written thirty years ago is translated by Mark Williams. Jacket illustration is of a Japanese basket for eggs; design by Hermann Strohbach. Endo writes of choices made by young adults learning who they are and what they want in life. 194 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 1995, New Directions, New York.
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  • Title The Girl I Left Behind
  • Author Endo, Shusaku
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 194
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Directions, New York
  • Date 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 026735
  • ISBN 9780811213035 / 081121303X
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.33 x 5.73 x 0.76 in (21.16 x 14.55 x 1.93 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95011038
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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An early novel written some thirty years ago, the Japanese writer Shusaku Endo's The Girl I Left Behind is now presented in the U.S. for the first time. Prefiguring themes of his later work, Endo here writes of choices made by young adults learning who they are and what they want in life. Yoshioka Tstomu is a student, not much interested in his studies, short on cash and long on sexual desire. Eventually he will settle down in a career and marry the boss's niece. Yet he won't be able to entirely set aside the memory of Mitsu, a plain, naive country girl he once took callous advantage of during his college days. The episode meant nothing to him at the time; to her it meant the world.

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/1995, Page 1380
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/11/1995, Page 72

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