by Shusaku Endo · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435005289
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«El samurai» is the historical novel by Shusaku Endo, published by Edhasa in hardback (448 pages, in Spanish).
In 1613, four samurai set out from Japan to Mexico with a Spanish priest as interpreter to negotiate commercial privileges with the West in exchange for allowing Christian preaching in Japan. When the project fails, the envoys continue to Spain and Italy. The story explores faith, fragility, loyalty and ambition.
Translation by Carlos Peralta. Belongs to Edhasa's Narrativas Históricas collection. Published in Barcelona.
For readers of historical fiction interested in Japanese narrative and the encounter between Japan and the West.
Shūsaku Endō was a Japanese author who wrote from the perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Internationally, he is known for his 1966 historical fiction novel Silence, which was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name by director Martin Scorsese. He was the laureate of several prestigious literary accolades, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Order of Culture, and was inducted into the Roman Catholic Order of St. Sylvester by Pope Paul VI.
