内容简介
Sustainedbydreamsofgloriousmartyrdom,aseventeenth-centuryPurtuguesemissionaryinJapanadministerstotheoutlawedChristiansuntilJapaneseauthoritiescapturehimandforcehimtowatchthetortureofhisfollowers,promisingtostopifhewillrenounceChrist.
作者简介
ShūsakuEndō?(遠藤周作?EndōShūsaku)wasarenowned20thcentury?Japaneseauthor?whowrotefromtheunusualperspectiveofbeingbothJapanese?and?Catholic.(ThepopulationofChristiansin?Japan?islessthan1%.)TogetherwithJunnosukeYoshiyuki,?ShotaroYasuoka,?JunzoShono,?HiroyukiAgawa,?AyakoSono,andShumonMiura,Endoiscategorizedasoneofthe"ThirdGeneration,"thethirdmajorgroupofwriterswhoappearedafterthe?SecondWorldWar.Hisbooksreflectmanyofhischildhoodexperiences.Theseincludethestigmaofbeinganoutsider,theexperienceofbeingaforeigner,thelifeofahospitalpatient,andthestrugglewithtuberculosis.However,hisbooksmainlydealwiththemoralfabricoflife.HisCatholicfaithcanbeseenatsomelevelinallofhisbooks,anditisoftenacentralfeature.--ThistextreferstotheAudioCDedition.
