This novel
is very sad and very hard to take. It forces the reader to search one’s own
soul. It is a very compelling story. Your opinion on the book is going to
depend on where you are in your own life. I do not think you can read this
story and be unchanged, unmoved. It is worth reading to the end and then turn
it around and read it again. It is very powerful.” By R. Clayton
“This
question, raised countless times by the main character Rodrigues, is just one
of many theological issues that Endo explores in this highly emotional,
extremely probing novel. The Christian period of Japan is regarded as a
somewhat curious anomaly by the Japanese themselves, and is largely unknown in
western circles. ” By C. E. Stevens VINE VOICE.
The
years-long four harrowing years on the Western Front, returns to Australia and
takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey
from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a
season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after
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miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries
on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living
baby.<BR> <BR>Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral
principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant
immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God,” and against
Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two,
Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other
people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
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“This was a
frustrating “nobody wins” story, and the ending was very anticlimactic. I
wished that the author had done a better job in connecting the main character’s
war service and his overwhelming desire to tell the truth. The war service and awards
for valor were almost irrelevant to those decisions, in my opinion.
“Tom
Sherbourne has miraculously survived World War I and finds himself in a small
town in western Australia seeking work as a lighthouse keeper. A winner of
medals of honor, he is no stranger to violence and killing. As he gets his
first temporary job, he also meets Isabel, who becomes the love of his life.
They begin a romance, marry and move to the isolated lighthouse, Janus, where
they hope to start a family.” By Fairbanks Reader – Bonnie Brody TOP 500
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