6/26/2023 0 Comments Shūsaku endō books![]() ![]() With the A-bomb attack on Nagasaki looming in the distance, Endō depicts ordinary people trying to live lives of faith in a wartime situation that renders daily life increasingly unbearable. Shūhei’s dilemma deepens when he faces conscription into the Japanese military, conflicting with the Christian belief that killing is a sin. Endō alternates scenes between Nagasaki-where the growing love between Sachiko and Shūhei is imperiled by mounting persecution-and Auschwitz, where the priest has been sent. Meanwhile, a Polish Franciscan priest and former missionary in Nagasaki, Father Maximillian Kolbe, is arrested after returning to his homeland. ![]() But life becomes increasingly difficult for them and other Christians after Japan launches wars of aggression. In the 1930s, two young Japanese Christians, Sachiko and Shūhei, are free to play with American children in their neighborhood. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 19, 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 novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. ![]()
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