{"product_id":"9780811214391","title":"Five by Endo","description":"Five wonderful stories by the Japanese master. Winner of every major Japanese literary prize, his work translated around the globe, Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) is a great and unique figure in the literature of the twentient century. \"Irrevocably enmeshed in Japanese culture, he is by virtue of his religion [Endo was Roman Catholic] irrevocably alienated from it\" (Geoffrey O'Brian,Village Voice). It is this aspect that has made Endo so particularly intriguing to his readership at home and abroad. Now gathered in a New Directions Bibelot edition are five of Endo's supreme short stories exemplifying his style and his interests, presenting, as it were, Endo in a nutshell. \"Unzen,\" the opening story, touches on the subject of Silence Endo's most famous novel -- that is the torture and martyrdom of Christians in seventeenth-century Japan. Next comes \"A Fifty-year-old Man\" in which Mr. Chiba takes up ballroom dancing and faces the imminent death of his brother and his dog Whitey. In \"Japanese in Warsaw\" a business man has a strange encounter; in \"The Box,\" an old photo album and a few postcards have a tale to reveal. Finally included is \"The Case of Isobe,\" the opening chapter of Endo's novelDeep Riverin which Isobe, a member of a tour group, hopes to find in India the reincarnation of the wife he took so much for granted.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016583790832,"sku":"9780811214391","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811214391_p0.jpg?v=1763729339","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811214391","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}