In 1613 the missionary Father Pedro Velasco's dream comes true. For the first time, the Japanese are going to cross the Pacific Ocean. And he is going with them. As he sets sail with a group of Samurai, for Mexico, then Spain and finally Rome, his zealous hope is that, by opening up relations with the western world, Japan will become ripe for conversion to Christianity - with him as Bishop. But fate has other plans for Father Velasco.
A gripping portrayal of an extraordinary historical voyage, filled with danger and hardship, The Samurai is a haunting novel of endurance, faith and hubris.
'Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists' Graham Greene
'Powerful, beautifully written' New Statesman
- ISBN10 0241307465
- ISBN13 9780241307465
- Publish Date 3 August 2017 (first published 6 May 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 August 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Penguin Classics
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 336
- Language English