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The Girl I Left Behind
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The Girl I Left Behind Hard cover - 1994

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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N.Y.: NEW DIRECTIONS BOOKS, 1994. First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. FINE IN FINE DJ.
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  • Title The Girl I Left Behind
  • Author ENDO, SHUSAKU
  • Binding Hard Cover
  • Edition First U.S. Edition, First printing
  • Pages 194
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher NEW DIRECTIONS BOOKS, N.Y.
  • Date 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1303
  • 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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From the rear cover

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