Juvenile Nonfiction

52 Books. | June 2009
Endo, Shusaku (Van C. Gessel, translator)
NY: Vintage Books, 1989 (1982)
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Endo is an unrepentant fatalist. I picked this up after reading Silence; this continues with the same themes — the Japanese cultural approach to faith in Christ, faith through suffering, God’s silence. In The Samurai, Endo explores the path to faith of two people, a Spanish missionary and a Japanese samurai. They travel to the New World and Spain in the early 1600s in an attempt to open trade routes to Japan. The missionary thinks he knows God, the samurai vows he never will, but both are proved wrong when they come to faith at the end of the novel, and are martyred. Silence is recognized as Endo’s masterpiece, but I liked this one better.

Previous Book: 33. The student Bible (New International Version). Next Book: 35. Millroy the magician.

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