num_pages: 165
description: The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer. The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence . His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less familiar. The dozen stories of Stained Glass Elegies , selected by the author together with his translator, display the full range of Endo's talents in short fiction.
language: English
title: Stained Glass Elegies
titlecomplete: Stained Glass Elegies
genres: Short Stories, Japanese Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Japan
ratings_count: 194
publisher: New Directions