Description
A reflective, triptych novel shaped by the author’s own experience of studying abroad, this work follows characters navigating the disorienting distance between home and “elsewhere.” As they move through foreign streets, languages, and expectations, their encounters become a testing ground for identity, belief, and the private compromises people make when culture and conscience collide. With Endō’s characteristically lucid, psychologically intimate style, the book examines what it means to belong—and what it costs to remain faithful to oneself when the world insists on becoming someone else. Across its interconnected movements, it turns “foreign studies” into a meditation on alienation, moral uncertainty, and the quiet, lasting effects of crossing borders.
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paperback
Sceptre
Published Jan 1, 1990
232 pages
ISBN: 9780340530849
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Details
First Published
1989
Language
jpn
Translation
From: jpn
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