Editore: London : Peter Owen, 1994
ISBN 10: 0720609208 ISBN 13: 9780720609202
Da: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First UK Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 216p. ; 24cm. Subjects: Japanese fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English. 1 Kg.
Editore: London : Peter Owen, 1994
ISBN 10: 0720609208 ISBN 13: 9780720609202
Da: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
First UK Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 216p. ; 24cm. Subjects: Japanese fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English. 1 Kg.
Editore: Peter Owen Publishers, 1994
ISBN 10: 0720609208 ISBN 13: 9780720609202
Da: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1994 Peter Owen hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Near fine clean tight binding in near fine unclipped dustjacket.
Editore: London / Chester Springs, Peter Owen Publishers., 1994
ISBN 10: 0720609208 ISBN 13: 9780720609202
Da: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Irlanda
16 x 24cm. 216 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Illustrated endpapers. Excellent condition. Includes inserted newspaper reviews of this book and of other works by the author. Shusaku Endo was a Japanese author who wrote from the rare perspective of a Japanese Roman Catholic. In this, his last novel, a trip to India becomes a journey of discovery for a group of Japanese tourists playing out their "individual dramas of the soul." Isobe searches for his reincarnated wife, while Kiguchi relives the wartime horror that ultimately saved his life. Alienated by middle age, Mitsuko follows Otsu, a failed priest, to the holy city of Varanas, hoping that the murky Ganges holds the secret to the "difference between being alive and truly living." Looking for absolutes, each character confronts instead the moral ambiguity of India's complex culture, in which good and evil are seen as a whole as indifferent to distinction as the Ganges River, which washes the living and transports the dead. This novel is a fascinating study of cultural truths revealed through a rich and varied cast. [From The Library Journals] Sprache: english.
Editore: Peter Owen Publishers, 1994
ISBN 10: 0720609208 ISBN 13: 9780720609202
Da: Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Condizione: Acceptable. An acceptable and readable copy. All pages are intact, and the spine and cover are also intact. This item may have light highlighting, writing or underlining through out the book, curled corners, missing dust jacket and or stickers.