Stained Glass Elegies

by Shusaku Endo, Van C. Gessel (Translator)

Overview

The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer.

The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less familiar. The dozen stories of Stained Glass Elegies, selected by the author together with his translator, display the full range of Endo's talents in short fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811211420
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	10/28/1990
Series:	New Directions Revived Modern Classics
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	755,033
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Shusaku Endo (1923–1996) is widely regarded as one of the most important Japanese authors of the late twentieth century. He won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. His novel Silence was recently made into a major film directed by Martin Scorsese.

Van C. Gessel is a professor of Japanese at Brigham Young University, and has a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University. After joining the Church of Latter-day Saints in 1968, Gessel served as a missionary to Japan from 1970-71. He was given a lifetime achievement award from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture of Columbia University for his translations of modern Japanese fiction.