Deep River
Puskin Press Classic
- Auteur: Shusaku Endo (Japan)
- Soort boek: Japanse roman
- Origineel: 深い河 (1993)
- Engelse vertaling: Van C. Gessel
- Uitgever: Puskin Press
- Verschijnt: 18 juli 2024
- Omvang: 288 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
Shusaku Endo Deep River recensie en review
- “One of the world’s greatest novelists.” (Washington Post)
Flaptekst van de roman van de Japanse schrijver Shusaku Endo
Agroup of Japanese tourists journey to the sacred River Ganges, each on a secret personal pilgrimage. Widower Isobe mourns for the devoted wife he neglected; gentle children’s writer Numanda seeks out the bird he believes saved his life; Kiguchi is haunted by his time as a soldier along the Highway of Death; and Mitsuko reconnects with the classmate she tempted away from the church and cruelly discarded.
At the softly lapping shores of the river – where the faithful come to bathe during their final moments – self-knowledge is sought and memories put to rest. Set against a rich backdrop of 90s India, Deep River is a beautifully moving story showing Endo at the height of his powers as a chronicler of religious experience.
Shusaku Endo (27 maart 1923, Tokio – 29 september 1996, Tokio) was one of the greatest novelists of postwar Japan. Baptised as a Roman Catholic as a child, his work explores the relationship between East and West from his unique perspective as a Japanese Christian. Endo won the Akutgawa Prize and the Yomiuri Literary Prize, was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times, and received an Order of Culture from the Japanese government. His historical fiction novel, Silence, was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name by the director Martin Scorsese.