Kiku's Prayer : : A Novel / / Shūsaku Endō.
Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to recant under torture. Kiku's efforts to...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Mitsu and Kiku -- |t The searcher -- |t Nagasaki -- |t The Road is long -- |t The Temple of the Southern Barbarians -- |t A Day of Hope -- |t Spies -- |t Battles in the Dark -- |t The contest -- |t Heavy rain -- |t A chance encounter -- |t The setting of the sun -- |t The reunion -- |t Separation -- |t The crowd -- |t Tsuwano -- |t Maruyama -- |t The valley of pain -- |t Two kinds of love -- |t A man named ITŌ -- |t The blessed and the unblessed -- |t Otome pass -- |t The third winter -- |t Snow and the blessed mother -- |t Going home -- |t Epilogue -- |t Between the Lines: Author's Afterword |
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520 | |a Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to recant under torture. Kiku's efforts to reconcile her feelings for Seikichi's religion with the sacrifices she makes to free him mirror the painful, conflicting choices Japan faced as a result of exposure to modernity and the West. Seikichi's persecution exemplifies Japan's insecurities, and Kiku's tortured yet determined spirit represents the nation's resilient soul.Set in the turbulent years of the transition from the shogunate to the Meiji Restoration, Kiku's Prayer embodies themes central to Endo Shusaku's work, including religion, modernization, and the endurance of the human spirit. Yet this novel is much more than a historical allegory. It acutely renders one woman's troubled encounter with passion and spirituality at a transitional time in her life and in the history of her people. A renowned twentieth-century Japanese author, Endo wrote from the perspective of being both Japanese and Catholic. His work is often compared with that of Graham Greene, who himself considered Endo one of the century's finest writers. | ||
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