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The Samurai

ISBN 
9780241307465
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R270.00
Published 
September 2017
About the book: 

IIn 1613 Father Pedro Velasco's dream came true.  He set sail with a small group of Japanese Samurai  first for Mexico, then Spain, then Rome.  Velasco could speak Japanese and his zealous hope was to become bishop of a converted, Catholic Japan.  They were the first Japanese ever to cross the Pacific.  Velasco's mission, along with that of the Samurai, was to use Western trade to turn Japan into a Christian country.  This epic journey was filled with incredible danger and hardship, underwritten solely by faith...

 
An exciting, imaginative dramatization of real events, Endo's great work is also a profoundly personal one, reflecting on his beliefs.

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