The Girl I Left Behind
Shusaku Endo, 1972
私が・棄てた・女
遠藤周作
Japan
Read in 2020.04
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✔ Fiction from one of Japan's best authors
✔ A life of a naïve girl's
✔ Cruel love story
🔽 Review summary 🔽
★★★★☆ A naïve country girl who's not pretty and not smart, a girl the protagonist took advantage and left behind, thrown away like a rubbish. I knew it'd be painful to read, her pure selfless love.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
The author of "Silence", I knew it'd be hard to read - and it was.
"Silence" was full on religious, the author's eternal struggle, this one in a way also was.
It's about a naïve country girl who's not pretty and not smart, a girl the protagonist took advantage and left behind, thrown away like a rubbish.
She is aware that she was hurt, yet she tries to free him from his guilt; her pure selfless love, maybe that's a religion.
Her religion is to live only for others.
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