Ayako Miura

Shiokari Pass (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Fearnehough, Bill

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on a true story, Shiokari Pass is a moving tale of love eclipsed by sacrifice and tragedy.

The hero of this Japanese novel is the young and idealistic Nobuo Nagano, who finds himself forced to make a heart-rending decision, when he must choose between his childhood sweetheart, Fujiko, and his newly found Christian faith. Set in Hokkaido at the turn of the nineteenth century, when for the first time Western culture and ideas were beginning to challenge Japan's long-held traditions, Shiokari Pass takes an intriguing look at Japanese life and thought of a hundred years ago.

Filled with drama and featuring a spectacular climax amidst the snows of Hokkaido, the book was a bestseller in Japanese and a successful motion picture as well. Based on the life of a high-ranking railway employee who was revered for his humanitarian deeds, Shiokari Pass offers a revealing glimpse of the long, hard road traveled by Japanese Christians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tuttle Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781462903016
• Artikelnr.: 37921507

Autorenporträt

Ayako Miura was born and raised in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, not far from the actual location of Shiokari Pass. Like the hero of this novel, she too is a convert to Christianity. Since the publication in 1965 of her first novel, Hyoten (The Freezing Point), the winning submission in a leading newspaper's search for new writers, Ayako Miura has steadily produced a number of bestsellers. She now ranks as one of Japan's most popular female authors.

Bill and Sheila Fearnehough met while they were both students at Durham University, near Newcastle. After working for some years at a company in England, Bill became a missionary; he and Sheila went to live in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, in 1968, as members of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship. In 1970, Ayako Miura joined one of their English conversation classes, and this friendship led to their decision to translate Shiokari Pass.