Deep River Tapa dura - 1995

New Directions. First American Edition. Good. Good. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported

New Directions, 1995-04-16. Used - Like New. Used Like New, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark.

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Norton & Company Limited, W. W. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

New Directions, 1994. New Directions Book, 1994, First Edition, 8vo, 216 pages. Book and jacket in near fine condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York. 1995. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0811212890. Translated from the Japanese by Van C. Gessel. 216 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Japan Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Thirty years lie between the leading contemporary Japanese writer Shusaku Endo's justly famed Silence and his powerful new novel DEEP RIVER, a book which is both a summation and a pinnacle of his work. The river is the Ganges, where a group of Japanese tourists converge: Isobe, grieving the death of the wife he ignored in life; Kiguchi, haunted by wartime memories of the Highway of Death in Burma; Numanda, recovering from a critical illness; Mitsuko, a cynical woman struggling with inner emptiness; and butt of her cruel interest, Otsu, a failed seminarian for whom the figure on the cross is a god of many faces. Bringing these and other characters to vibrant life and evoking a teeming India so vividly that the reader is almost transported there, Endo reaches his ultimate religious… Leer más

New York: New Directions, 1994. Third Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. 8vo - 8 x 6 x 1 inches; 13 ounces; 216 p. "A trip to India becomes a journey of discovery for a group of Japanese tourists playing out their "individual dramas of the soul." Isobe searches for his reincarnated wife, while Kiguchi relives the wartime horror that ultimately saved his life. Alienated by middle age, Mitsuko follows Otsu, a failed priest, to the holy city of Varanas, hoping that the murky Ganges holds the secret to the "difference between being alive and truly living." Looking for absolutes, each character confronts instead the moral ambiguity of India's complex culture, in which good and evil are seen as a whole as indifferent to distinction as the Ganges River, which washes the living and transports the dead. This novel is a fascinating study of cultural truths revealed through a rich and varied cast. Endo, one of Japan's leading writers, (The Final Martyrs, LJ 9/1/94) skillfully depicts the small… Leer más