Overview
The river is the Ganges, where a group of Japanese tourists converge: Isobe, grieving the death of the wife he ignored in life; Kiguchi, haunted by war-time memories of the Highway of Death in Burma; Numada, recovering from a critical illness; Mitsuko, a cynical woman struggling with inner emptiness; and, the butt of her cruel interest, Otsu, a failed seminarian for whom the figure on the cross is a god of many faces. In this novel, the renowned Japanese writer Shusaku Endo reaches his ultimate religious vision.
- | Author: Shusaku Endo
- | Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- | Publication Date: Apr 17, 1995
- | Number of Pages: 222 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0811212890
- | ISBN-13: 9780811212892
