Scandal. Translated from the Japanese by Van C. Gessel.

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237 p. Das Exemplar ist in einem sehr guten und sauberen Zustand ohne Anstreichungen. The copy is in a very good and clean condition without markings. - "If the pace of the novel suggests a detective story, the concerns that drive it are far more spiritual, and considerably more frightening." - The Washington Post -- "A master, a writer who has achieved a marvellous blend of Western existential thought and fiction with something inherently Japanese." - The Observer -- A "provocative, impassioned meditation. with the unerring grace that defines a novelist in the fullest command of his craft." - Publishers Weekly -- An enigmatic train of events is set in motion when Suguro, an aging, respectably married Catholic novelist is accosted by a drunken woman at a party. She claims to know him from his frequent visits to the unsavory porn district of Tokyo, where his portrait is being exhibited. Suguro denies any knowledge of the picture or ever having been in that part of town. Yet when a morbid curiosity compels him to track down the portrait, it seems oddly familiar, like a leering, degenerate-looking version of himself. Scandal is at once a psychological thriller and a literary work of art that grips and propels the reader as it subtly peels off layers from the dark side of human nature -- Shusaku Endo was born in Tokyo in 1923. He graduated with a degree in French literature from Keio University, then studied in Lyons on a French government scholarship. In his books, Endo fuses the literary traditions of East and West as no other writer has done, and has been called by Graham Greene "one of the finest living novelists." Endo has received honorary doctorates from a number of American universities and won several major literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Mainichi Cultural Prize, the Shincho Prize, and the Tanizaki Prize. Van C. Gessel teaches modern Japanese literature at the University of California at Berkeley. Scandal is the fourth of Shusaku Endo's books he has translated into English. ISBN 9780804815581 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 333.

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Título

Scandal. Translated from the Japanese by Van C. Gessel.

Editor

Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company

Fecha de publicación

1988

Idioma

Inglés

ISBN 10

0804815585

ISBN 13

9780804815581

Encuadernación

Paperback.

Edición

First Tuttle Ed.

Estado

Sehr gut

Peso

333 gramos

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