Volcano - Couverture souple

Volcano demonstrates that the novelist can be a poet as well as a biographer, shaping and colouring people and places to suit a transforming, individual vision of life. --Sunday Times

His virtues could be seen as old-fashioned ones plot, character, motive, moral confrontation. But such virtues have a place in fiction, and Endo gives them new life. --Anthony Thwaite, New York Times Review of Books

A most intelligent and distinguished work --Allan Massie, Scotsman

His virtues could be seen as old-fashioned ones plot, character, motive, moral confrontation. But such virtues have a place in fiction, and Endo gives them new life. --Anthony Thwaite, New York Times Review of Books

A most intelligent and distinguished work --Allan Massie, Scotsman

One of the author s finest works --Library Journal

A most intelligent and distinguished work --Allan Massie, Scotsman

A significant work in Shusako Endo s oeuvre, Volcano is a powerful novel of ideas as well as a sensitive and moving depiction of the trials of old age, set in the central region of Japan. With two masterly portraits of two men who have lived their lives both physically and metaphorically under the shadow of the famous Akadeke volcano, Endo s novel charts the conflicts between them which have explosive results and poses profound questions about man s relationship with nature. Rich in symbolism and enhanced by two of the author s most remarkable characters, Volcano is unforgettable. This is the first paperback edition of one of Endo s finest works of fiction.