Shusaku Endo





Shusaku Endo

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born
March 27, 1923 in Tokyo, Japan

died
September 29, 1996

gender
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Shusaku Endo, born in Tokyo in 1923, was raised by his mother and an aunt in Kobe where he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of eleven. At Tokyo's Keio University he majored in French literature, graduating BA in 1949, before furthering his studies in French Catholic literature at the University of Lyon in France between 1950 and 1953. A major theme running through his books, which have been translated into many languages, including English, French, Russian and Swedish, is the failure of Japanese soil to nurture the growth of Christianity. Before his death in 1996, Endo was the recipient of a number of outstanding Japanese literary awards: the Akutagawa Prize, Mainichi Cultural Prize, Shincho Prize, and Tanizaki Prize.
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Average rating: 3.91 · 4,285 ratings · 566 reviews · 17 distinct works
Silence
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 2,291 ratings — published 1966 — 22 editions
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Deep River
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions
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The Samurai
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 1980 — 14 editions
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The Sea and Poison
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 1957 — 8 editions
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Scandal
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1986 — 12 editions
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Wonderful Fool
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1979 — 7 editions
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A Life of Jesus
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions
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When I Whistle
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1979 — 8 editions
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Five by Endo
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2000
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The Girl I Left Behind
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions
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More books by Shusaku Endo…
“Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.”
Shusaku Endo, Silence

“Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever - at least, not within the confines of my heart.”
Shusaku Endo, The Final Martyrs

“لقد جعلتني أمي وأنا في الثالثة عشرة من عمري أرتدي ملابس غريبة، لا تناسبني، ومنذ ذلك اليوم أحاول دونما نجاح أن أجعل من هذه الملابس كيمونو”
Shusaku Endo

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