Re: Need help choosing a novel to read

From: Michael Cash (mikecash_at_buggerallspammers.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:46:34 +0900

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:41:26 -0800, Don Kirkman <spambuster@covad.net>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

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

I've read his "Chichioya"
(http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/books/fiction/other/endou_shusaku/chichioya.htm)
which I liked pretty well. Also read "Kaidanji Kaidanji" which I liked
much better. My copy of it is an old beaten-up first edition. I tried
to hunt for it on Amazon Japan and couldn't find it. I have also never
heard any mention of it anywhere, so I am led to believe that a single
edition may have been all that was ever printed. It deals with a young
man and a young woman who come (separately) to Tokyo in the immediate
aftermath of WWII. 

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Michael Cash
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