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Samurai

Shūsaku Endō

1982272 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1982
first published
  • 1982Peter Owen · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780720605594
  • 1982Harper & Row · 272 pages · ENG
  • 1984Vintage Books · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780394727264
  • 1997New Directions · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780811213462

In 1613 Father Pedro Velasco's dream came true. He set sail with a small group of Japanese Samurai for Mexico, Spain and Rome. Velasco knew Japanese, and his zealous hope was to become primate over a converted, Catholic Japan. His mission, with the Samurai, was to bargain for a Catholic crusade through Japan in exchange for Japanese trading rights with the West. It was a journey of incredible danger and hardship, underwritten solely by faith...

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