The Samurai
  • Published: 16 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241307465
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $22.99

The Samurai

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A superb historical novel by one of Japan's greatest novelists

In 1613 Father Pedro Velasco's dream came true. He set sail with a small group of Japanese Samurai first for Mexico, then Spain, then Rome. Velasco could speak Japanese and his zealous hope was to become bishop of a converted, Catholic Japan. They were the first Japanese ever to cross the Pacific. Velasco's mission, along with that of the Samurai, was to use Western trade to turn Japan into a Christian country. This epic journey was filled with incredible danger and hardship, underwritten solely by faith...

An exciting, imaginative dramatization of real events, Endo's great work is also a profoundly personal one, reflecting on his beliefs.
  • Published: 16 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241307465
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for The Samurai

Powerful... beautifully written... a fascinating narrative with its double perspective from East to West

New Statesman

Endo is really like no one else... as that rarity, a Japanese Catholic, he has found a border territory--of cultural and psychological clash--which is all his own.

The Observer

Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists

Graham Greene