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Sachiko - A Novel (Paperback)
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Sachiko - A Novel (Paperback)
Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia
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In novels such as Silence, Endo Shusaku examined the persecution of
Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in
Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story
of two young people trying to find love during yet another period
in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their
country. In the 1930s, two young Japanese Christians, Sachiko and
Shuhei, are free to play with American children in their
neighborhood. But life becomes increasingly difficult for them and
other Christians after Japan launches wars of aggression.
Meanwhile, a Polish Franciscan priest and former missionary in
Nagasaki, Father Maximillian Kolbe, is arrested after returning to
his homeland. Endo alternates scenes between Nagasaki-where the
growing love between Sachiko and Shuhei is imperiled by mounting
persecution-and Auschwitz, where the priest has been sent. Shuhei's
dilemma deepens when he faces conscription into the Japanese
military, conflicting with the Christian belief that killing is a
sin. With the A-bomb attack on Nagasaki looming in the distance,
Endo depicts ordinary people trying to live lives of faith in a
wartime situation that renders daily life increasingly unbearable.
Endo's compassion for his characters, reflecting their struggles to
find and share love for others, makes Sachiko one of his most
moving novels.
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