Japanese Literature

Description: Dive into some Japanese literature with Japan's foremost literary novelists, Shusako Endo and Osamu Dazai. Shusako Endo's Silence tells the story of a seventeenth-century Portuguese priest in Japan at the height of the fearful persecution of the small Christian community, while Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title).

Consists of: Silence (Good), No Longer Human (Very Good)