Authors > Shusaku Endo
Shusaku Endo (1923–1996) is widely regarded as one of the most important Japanese authors of the late twentieth century. He won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times.
‘One of the finest novels of our time by perhaps Japan’s greatest twentieth-century author’
Set in a Japanese hospital during the last days of the Second World War, the story centres on the medical staff who offer to assist in a series of experimental vivisections on American prisoners of war. The Sea and Poison is Shusaku Endo’s most disquieting novel. Chilling and unforgettable, it is a masterful study of individual and collective moral disintegration.
THE SAMURAI
In 1613, four Samurai set sail for Europe on an unprecedented diplomatic mission. Historical fiction at its finest and in many ways a companion piece to Silence.
FOREIGN STUDIES
Three short works of fiction about the spiritual and cultural clash of east and west.
VOLCANO
One of Endo’s finest works of fiction, Volcano is a powerful, finely wrought novel of ideas to do with man’s relationship with nature, as well as a moving depiction of the trials of old age.
WHEN I WHISTLE
Moving and elegiac, Endo takes a hospital setting for this novel and ode to Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons about old and new values in Japan.
WONDERFUL FOOL
Young Frenchman Gaston Bonaparte visits Tokyo. Leaving behind his cynical life in Europe, he embarks on a series of seemingly innocent misadventures with street urchins, stray dogs, prostitutes and gangsters.
SCANDAL
‘Endo is a great thriller writer … spine-chilling, erotic, cruel, full of intellectual games . . . very powerful.’ – Sunday Telegraph
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