Deep river
| ISBN: | 0811212890, 9780811212892 |
| OCLC Number: | 31291480 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Author: | Shusaku Endo |
| Translator: | Van C. Gessel |
| Language: | en |
| Publisher: | New Directions, 1994, 1996; Peter Owen, 1994 |
| Publication Place: | New York; Chester Springs, PA |
| Japanese Copyright Year: | 1993 |
| English Publication Date: | 1994 |
| Notes: | Japanese title: Dipu riba. |
| Abstract: | In India, four Japanese tourists converge on the River Ganges in search of absolution. The novel probes their consciences, from Isobe, grieving the death of the wife he ignored in life, to Kugachi, haunted by wartime memories of a man who saved his life by eating human flesh, then drank himself to death to forget. An analysis of the importance of religion. |
| Subjects: | Japanese fiction, India Shusaku Endo, Translations into English |