The Girl I Left Behind
An early novel written some thirty years ago, the Japanese writer Shusaku Endo's The Girl I Left Behind is now presented in the U.S. for the first time. Prefiguring themes of his later work, Endo here writes of choices made by young adults learning who they are and what they want in life. Yoshioka Tstomu is a student, not much interested in his studies, short on cash and long on sexual desire. Eventually he will settle down in a career and marry the boss's niece. Yet he won't be able to entirely set aside the memory of Mitsu, a plain, naive country girl he once took callous advantage of during his college days. The episode meant nothing to hi…
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Weitere Autoren: Williams, Mark / Williams, Mark (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1303-5
- EAN: 9780811213035
- Produktnummer: 9205816
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 194 S.
- Masse: H21.2 cm x B14.6 cm x D1.9 cm 318 g
- Gewicht: 318
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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.
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