Re: Need help choosing a novel to read

From: Cindy (cindyduels_at_att.net)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:10:32 -0600

Don Kirkman wrote:

> About the time I last left Japan Shusaku Endo was gaining a reputation;
> I read a fair amount of his "The Sea and Poison" (I have to rely on the
> kindness of strangers to correct me on that--I can't put my hands on my
> copy at the moment), and I think I did a bit of "Silence" for which I
> can't recall the Japanese title - "Chinmotsu"?

It's "Chinmoku".

TS&P dealt with tough
> subjects, but I can't recall about the language itself.

Oh, yeah, if you are a Christian, you will enjoy Endo Shusaku a lot.
Have you read his "Samurai"? It was another depressing novel of Endo.