by Shusaku Endo · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422625797
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«El samurái» is a historical novel by Shusaku Endo, published in 1988 by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (346 pages, in Spanish).
In 1613, four low-ranking samurai travel to Mexico with a Spanish priest as interpreter to negotiate trade agreements and allow Christian preaching in Japan. When the mission fails, they continue to Spain and Italy and are the first Japanese to set foot in Europe. The novel addresses faith, identity, and the clash between East and West.
Translation by Carlos Peralta. Original title in Japanese: 侍. Fictionalized reconstruction of a real historical encounter between cultures.
For readers of historical fiction and Japanese literature, interested in the encounter between cultures and Christianity in Japan.
Shūsaku Endō was a Japanese author who wrote from the perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Internationally, he is known for his 1966 historical fiction novel Silence, which was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name by director Martin Scorsese. He was the laureate of several prestigious literary accolades, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Order of Culture, and was inducted into the Roman Catholic Order of St. Sylvester by Pope Paul VI.
