51 Ergebnisse - Zeige 21 von 40.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

One of Endo's most unusual and powerful novels is set largely in a modern hospital, with themes and scenes that eerily seem to predate "Never Let Me Go" A jaded businessman has a chance encounter with the doctor son of his best friend at school, Ozu, and memories are stirred of a former love interest of Ozu's, Aiko. The son of his friend proves to be contemptuous of the outmoded values of his father's world and ruthless in pursuit of success a...

From the author of "Silence, " this powerful novel of ideas is also a sensitive and moving depiction of the trials of old age, set in the central region of Japan With two masterly portraits of two men who have lived their lives--both physically and metaphorically--under the shadow of the Akadeke volcano, this crucial work in Endo's oeuvre charts the conflicts between them, which have explosive results. This is the first paperback edition of on...

Keine Beschreibung.

This translation is dedicated to the memory of Hondao Shun (1936-1997) a kind and gentle man who was nothing like his namesake in this novel.

Stilte' is het aangrijpende meesterwerk van de Japanse schrijver Shusaku Endo en is verfilmd als 'Silence' door regisseur Martin Scorsese met Liam Neeson en Andrew Garfield in de hoofdrol. In 1638 vertrekt de jonge Portugese priester Sebastian Rodrigo naar Japan, om daar te helpen bij het verspreiden van de katholieke leer. Hij weet dat hem een zware taak wacht: de Japanse machthebbers keren zich de laatste jaren steeds feller tegen de christ...

Shusaku Endo's New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Review of BooksSeventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Review of BooksSeventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their be...

Schweigen ist der wichtigste Roman des gefeierten japanischen Autors Shusaku Endo. Er verursachte nach seiner Veröffentlichung im Jahr 1966 eine große Kontroverse in Japan. Shusaku Endo, ein japanischer Katholik, erzählt die Geschichte zweier portugiesischer Missionare, die im siebzehnten Jahrhundert in Japan versuchen, die dortige unterdrückte christliche Bewegung zu unterstützen.1638 bricht Pater Sebastião Rodrigues nach Japan auf, um der Wa...

Keine Beschreibung.

In this moving novel, a group of Japanese tourists, each of whom iswrestling with his or her own demons, travels to the River Ganges on apilgrimage of grace.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Warum gerade er, der Landadelige und Samurai Hasekura Rokuemon als Abgesandter in die Länder der Südbarbaren geschickt wird, begreift er nicht, aber er gehorcht.Zusammen mit drei weiteren Abgesandten, mit einer Gruppe von Kaufleuten und dem spanischen Franziskanerpater Valasco, der davon träumt, Bischof in Japan zu werden, bricht er im Jahre 1613 zu einer abenteuerlichen Reise auf, die ihn nach Mexiko, Spanien und Italien führt. Der Auftrag la...

Through the failed mission of Western priests who in the seventeenth century tried to evangelize Japan, Endo proposes a subtle reflection on the fundamental values ​​of the Christian faith. When the work was published in Japan it was the subject of passionate controversy, won the prestigious Tanizaki award, was considered the best novel of the year and in a short time had sold millions of copies. Today it is considered Endo's most important no...

Shusaku Endo's most disquieting novel and a masterful study of individual and collective moral disintegration. Set in a Japanese hospital during the last days of the Second World War, the story centres on the medical staff who offer to assist in a series of vivisections, experimental operations on live American prisoners of war.