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Shūsaku Endō

Born

in Tokyo, Japan

March 27, 1923

Died

September 29, 1996

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Christian

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Shusaku Endo (遠藤周作), 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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Shūsaku Endō’s books

Average rating: 4.05 · 58,364 ratings · 7,544 reviews · 381 distinct works • Similar authors

	Silence 4.10 avg rating — 42,261 ratings — published 1966 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Samurai 4.02 avg rating — 3,894 ratings — published 1980	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deep River by Shūsaku Endō, Van C. Gessel (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 2,988 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea and Poison by Shūsaku Endō, Michael Gallagher (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 2,009 ratings — published 1957 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scandal by Shūsaku Endō, Van C Gessel (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 1,586 ratings — published 1985	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wonderful Fool by Shūsaku Endō, Francis Mathy (Translator) 3.74 avg rating — 1,030 ratings — published 1959 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl I Left Behind by Shūsaku Endō, Mark Williams (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 720 ratings — published 1964 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When I Whistle: A Novel by Shūsaku Endō, Van C. Gessel (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 668 ratings — published 1974 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Life of Jesus by Shūsaku Endō, Richard A. Schuchert (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 665 ratings — published 1973 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Volcano 3.54 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1959 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Shūsaku Endō (?)

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
― Shusaku Endo

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“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

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“Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

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Polls

August 2019 New School Poll

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1962, 246 pages

81 votes, 28.7%

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré, 1974, 381 pages

73 votes, 25.9%

Silence by Shūsaku Endō, 1966, 201 pages

44 votes, 15.6%

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers, 1946, 163 pages

29 votes, 10.3%

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1938, 513 pages

28 votes, 9.9%

Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck, 1946, 316 pages

27 votes, 9.6%

282 total votes

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