Scandal

(Paperback)

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Suguro is an eminent Catholic novelist, respectably married and on the cusp of old age. So when a drunken woman approaches him at an awards ceremony claiming to know him from his regular visits to Tokyo's red-light district, she must surely be mistaken. Yet with more sightings reported and a malicious journalist trying to expose him as a fraud, Suguro is forced to take a terrible journey into the city's seedy heart - and to confront his own long repressed desires. The Peter Owen Modern Classics makes available the finest work from an unrivalled international fiction backlist which includes Jean Cocteau, Shusaku Endo, Anna Kavan, Hermann Hesse and other stellar names of twentieth century literature.

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"'Scandal ends, as it opens, with sinister premonitions... extremely gripping.' - New York Times 'Subtle, eerie and fascinating' - London Evening Standard 'Endo is a great thriller writer... The novel is spine-chilling, erotic, cruel, full of intellectual games... very powerful.' - Sunday Telegraph 'Endo's most remarkable novel... a superb dramatic triumph, a perfect plaiting of strands into a single, most delicate crowned knot.' - Independent"

Author Bio

SHUSAKU ENDO is widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese authors of the late twentieth century. Born in 1923, he won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. His novels, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, include The Sea and Poison, Wonderful Fool, Deep River and Silence. He died in 1996.