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Portraits of a Mother : A Novella and Stories by Shusaku Endo (2025, Trade Paperback)

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Portraits of a Mother : A Novella and Stories, Paperback by Endo, Shusaku; Gessel, Van C. (TRN); Phillips, Caryl (FRW), ISBN 0300279434, ISBN-13 9780300279436, Brand New, Free shipping in the US From beloved Japanese author Shu¯saku Endo¯, a newly discovered novella and five short stories of love, grief, and maternal longing

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PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300279434

ISBN-139780300279436

eBay Product ID (ePID)21070488186

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Book TitlePortraits of a Mother : a Novella and Stories

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicFamily Life, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorShusaku Endo

Book SeriesThe Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5 in

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Reviews"Offers not only a fascinating insight into the mind of a religious outsider, but also more generally into the guilt associated with religious doubt."--Christopher Corker, Asian Review of Books "[ Confronting the Shadows is] not juvenilia from the start of Endo's career, or a wistful late autumnal flourish. This is a writer working at the height of his powers."--from the foreword by Caryl Phillips Praise for Shusaku Endo: "[Endo is] a master of the interior monologue"-- New York Times Book Review "A writer of rare perception and disquieting honesty."-- Evening Standard "One of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers."-- Publishers Weekly "I think about Silence , and Endo's work more generally, all the time."Phil Klay, author of Redeployment and Winner of the 2014 National Book Award "Endo is to my mind one of the finest living novelists."Graham Greene, author of The Power and the Glory "A masterly historical writer."--David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas "Endo is a consummate writer who, as a master photographer, brings intense sentiment, character, and movement out of the subtle light and shadows that he focuses around his subject." Choice, "[ Confronting the Shadows is] not juvenilia from the start of Endo's career, or a wistful late autumnal flourish. This is a writer working at the height of his powers."--from the foreword by Caryl Phillips Praise for Shusaku Endo: "[Endo is] a master of the interior monologue"-- New York Times Book Review "A writer of rare perception and disquieting honesty."-- Evening Standard "One of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers."-- Publishers Weekly "I think about Silence , and Endo's work more generally, all the time."Phil Klay, author of Redeployment and Winner of the 2014 National Book Award "Endo is to my mind one of the finest living novelists."Graham Greene, author of The Power and the Glory "A masterly historical writer."--David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas "Endo is a consummate writer who, as a master photographer, brings intense sentiment, character, and movement out of the subtle light and shadows that he focuses around his subject." Choice

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal895.635

SynopsisFrom beloved Japanese author Shusaku Endo, a newly discovered novella and five short stories of love, grief, and maternal longing Shusaku Endo, widely considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, is known for his historical novels, which masterfully probe the encounters between the cultures and religions of East and West from a Japanese Catholic perspective. A salient and curious theme in his work is the unique image of a maternal God, and a concomitant sense of loss and longing for maternal love. Confronting the Shadows , the semiautobiographical novella discovered at the Endo Museum in Nagasaki in 2020, is Endo's most personal work and the interpretive key to his entire oeuvre. It tells the story of Suguro, an aspiring novelist who was separated from his mother after his parents' divorce. Desperate to understand the woman his mother was, he sets out to retrace her footsteps, only to find himself face to face with his own demons. Accompanying the novella are five stories, each disclosing the intricacies of the sacred feminine and the apprehensions and joys of familial love. Endo once again beams bright light into the hidden corners of the human heart in this remarkable new collection., From beloved Japanese author Shusaku Endo, a newly discovered novella and five short stories of love, grief, and maternal longing