by Shūsaku Endō · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070428663
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«Le Dernier souper et autres nouvelles» is a collection of short stories by Shūsaku Endō, published by Gallimard in paperback (105 pages, in French).
Stories set in contemporary Japan that revolve around faith, guilt and death. A man tries to forget or atone for a secret in drink, and a priest who converted Japanese people ends up abandoning the priesthood. Endō reconciles Japanese tradition and Catholicism, sin and redemption, suffering and courage.
The volume belongs to Gallimard's Folio 2 € line and the French translation is by Minh Nguyen-Mordvinoff.
For readers interested in Japanese literature and in short stories that explore faith, guilt and redemption in present-day Japan.
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.
