★★★★★ A group of strangers joins a tour to India, to Benares, a sacred place, a place of death. It asks the question, what is a religion, what is a life itself? They face Mother Ganga who embraces all deaths and lives, of all people. A masterpiece.
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Deep River
Shusaku Endo, 1993
Read in 2020.02
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Endo Shusaku is now even more known for his more clearly religious book, Silence, since Scorsese directed the movie.
This is a story about a group of strangers who joined a same packaged tour to visit temples in India.
They all had regrets and disappointments in life, with fragile hope in their hearts, they head towards Ganges River.
Benares, Varanasi, is a sacred place, a place of death.
There they face their inner selves and the extreme poverty in a boy who trust absolute power of gods.
It asks the question, what is a religion, what is a death or a life itself?
There they face Mother Ganga who embraces all deaths and lives, of all people.
Endo, a Catholic, was 70 years old when it was written, it was a way for him to look back at his own life to once again ponder his eternal question “what does it mean to be a Japanese and a Christian”
A masterpiece.
🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽
●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●
Deep River
●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Deep River: Shusaku Endo (Pushkin Press Classics)
●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
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