Research Catalog

Title

Sachiko : a novel / Endō Shūsaku ; translated by Van C. Gessel.

Author

Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Gessel, Van C.

Description

xiii, 408 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country. In the 1930s, two young Japanese Christians, Sachiko and Shūhei, are free to play with American children in their neighborhood. But life becomes increasingly difficult for them and other Christians after Japan launches wars of aggression. Meanwhile, a Polish Franciscan priest and former missionary in Nagasaki, Father Maximillian Kolbe, is arrested after returning to his homeland. Endō alternates scenes between Nagasaki-where the growing love between Sachiko and Shūhei is imperiled by mounting persecution-and Auschwitz, where the priest has been sent. Shūhei's dilemma deepens when he faces conscription into the Japanese military, conflicting with the Christian belief that killing is a sin. With the A-bomb attack on Nagasaki looming in the distance, Endō depicts ordinary people trying to live lives of faith in a wartime situation that renders daily life increasingly unbearable. Endō's compassion for his characters, reflecting their struggles to find and share love for others, makes Sachiko one of his most moving novels"--

Series Statement

Weatherhead books on Asia

Uniform Title

• Onna no isshō. English
• Weatherhead books on Asia.

Alternative Title

Onna no isshō.

Note

• Translated from the Japanese.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. His Arrival -- 2. Sachiko -- 3. A Spy -- 4. A Minor Secret -- 5. Dark Surging Waves -- 6. The Place of Death -- 7. The Student Dormitory -- 8. A Conversation About Love -- 9. Anguish -- 10. Escape -- 11. Girlish Innocence -- 12. A Summer Ablaze -- 13. The Death of Kolbe -- 14. Step by Step -- 15. That Day -- 16. A Decision -- 17. As Though There Were No War -- 18. Letters from Shuhei -- 19. Dark Days -- 20. 1944 -- 21. And Sachiko -- 22. Requiem -- 23. August 9 -- 24. Aftermath.

Call Number

JFD 21-1446

ISBN

• 9780231197304
• 0231197306
• 9780231197311
• 0231197314

LCCN

2019057063

OCLC

1128195078

Author

Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996, author.

Title

Sachiko : a novel / Endō Shūsaku ; translated by Van C. Gessel.

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Weatherhead books on Asia

Weatherhead books on Asia.

Added Author

Gessel, Van C., translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996 Sachiko New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] 9780231552103 (DLC) 2019057064

Research Call Number

JFD 21-1446