Silence by Shusaku Endo, Narrated by David HoltRequirements: .MP3 reader, 210.6 MB, 7 hours and 39 minutesOverview: It is 1640 and Father Sebastian Rodrigues, an idealistic Jesuit priest, sets sale for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Christians there. He is also desperate to discover the truth about his former mentor, rumoured to have […]
The Samurai – A Novel of Christian Samurais by Shusaku EndoRequirements: .PDF reader, 35.79 MBOverview: Through the recent English-language publication of a series of brilliant novels, Endo has quickly become recognized as the most subtle-yet-devout writer of Christian fiction in the world today–one who uses the Japanese character (and its problematic fit with Christianity) to […]
Shusaku Endo – Deep River (Sceptre, 1995)Requirements: .ePUB reader, 298 KBOverview: Thirty years lie between the leading contemporary Japanese writer Shusaku Endo’s justly famed Silence and his powerful new novel Deep River, a book which is both a summation and a pinnacle of his work. The river is the Ganges, where a group of Japanese […]
Volcano by Shūsaku Endō (Shusaku Endo)Requirements: .PDF reader, 1.8 MBOverview: From the author of Silence, this powerful novel of ideas is also a sensitive and moving depiction of the trials of old age, set in the central region of Japan. With two masterly portraits of two men who have lived their lives—both physically and metaphorically—under […]
The Samurai – A Novel by Shusaku Endo (Endō Shūsaku)Requirements: .PDF reader, 35.79 MBOverview: Through the recent English-language publication of a series of brilliant novels, Endo has quickly become recognized as the most subtle-yet-devout writer of Christian fiction in the world today–one who uses the Japanese character (and its problematic fit with Christianity) to jimmy […]