Shusaku Endo

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1980
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Silence

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    Recipient of the 1966 Tanizaki Prize, it has been called Endo''s supreme achievement"" and ""one of the twentieth century''s finest novels"".

    Considered controversial ever since its first publication, it tackles the thorniest religious iss...

  • The Samurai

    In 1613, with plans to open a trade route between Mexico and Japan, four Samurai and an ambitious Franciscan missionary embark on a journey that takes them to Mexico and Rome and back again to a Japan torn by strife...

  • Wonderful Fool

    Gaston Bonaparte, a young Frenchman, visits Tokyo to stay with his pen-pal Takamori. His appearance is a bitter disappointment to his new friends and his behavior causes them acute embarrassment. He is a trusting person with a simple love for others,...

  • Scandal

    Suguro, a respected and famous Catholic writer, finds his life scandalized by accusations that he frequents the red-light district, and he soon discovers an imposter who forces him to question his own moral character...

  • The Golden Country

  • Stained Glass Elegies

    The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer.

    The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their...

  • The Sea and Poison

    The novel The Sea and Poison won the Akutagawa Prize when it was published in Japan in 1958 and established Shusaku Endo in the forefront of modern Japanese literature.

    The Sea and Poison was the first Japanese book to confront the problem of i...

  • Deep River

    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; Mitsuk...

  • Five by Endo

    Five wonderful stories by the Japanese master. Winner of every major Japanese literary prize, his work translated around the globe, Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) is a great and unique figure in the literature of the twentient century. "Irrevocably enmeshe...



  • Song of Sadness

    Song of Sadness is a kind of sequel to Endō’s acclaimed early work, The Sea and Poison. Set in the 1970s, the novel revisits Dr. Suguro, now in late middle age, running a modest clinic in Tokyo’s vibrant, seedy Shinjuku district and ...

  • The Final Martyrs

    An affirmation of faith and identity by Japan's leading Christian novelist.

    Eleven short, deeply spiritual stories ranging from autobiographical serendipities to solemn, empathetic parables. The title story is set during the 18th-century Sho...

  • Foreign Studies

    In the early 1950s, Shusaku Endo spent several years as an exchange student studying in Paris. Around him existentialism, Sartre, and Beckett were making the city the literary and philosophical capital of the world. But for Endo, the experience was d...

  • The Girl I Left Behind

    A romance about abandonment and guilt.

    Prefiguring themes of his later work, the acclaimed Japanese writer Shusaku Endo here writes of choices made by young adults learning who they are and what they want in life. Yoshioka Tstomu is a student,...

  • Volcano

    From the author of Silence, this powerful novel of ideas is also a sensitive and moving depiction of the trials of old age, set in the central region of Japan With two masterly portraits of two men who have lived their lives -- both p...

  • When I Whistle

    One of Endo's most unusual and powerful novels is set largely in a modern hospital, with themes and scenes that eerily seem to predate Never Let Me Go A jaded businessman has a chance encounter with the doctor son of his best fri...

  • Kiku's Prayer

    Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to...

  • White Man/Yellow Man

    White Man/Yellow Man, by one of Japan s most celebrated writers, gathers into one volume two novellas set during World War II one in France, one in Japan. White Man, which won Japan s most prestigious Akutagawa literary prize, is the work that first ...

  • Sachiko

    In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during y...

  • Portraits of a Mother

    From beloved Japanese author Shūsaku Endō, a newly discovered novella and five short stories of love, grief, and maternal longing   Shūsaku Endō (1923–1996), widely considered one of the greatest writers of the twen...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Shusaku Endo has published 19 books.

The next book by Shusaku Endo, Portraits of a Mother, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Shusaku Endo, Silence, was published in March 1980.

No. Shusaku Endo does not write books in series.
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