Deep River

Author/Contributor(s):	Endo, Shusaku ; Gessel, Van C ; Gessel, Van C
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date:	04/17/1995
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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 war-time memories of the Highway of Death in Burma; Numada, recovering from a critical illness; Mitsuko, a cynical woman struggling with inner emptiness; and, the butt of her cruel interest, Otsu, a failed seminarian for whom the figure on the cross is a god of many faces. In this novel, the renowned Japanese writer Shusaku Endo reaches his ultimate religious vision.