In my father's eyes, my mother is stubborn and unwilling to live a stable life. In the eyes of my uncle, my mother had lowered her stature and had to leave home to study while working as a maid. Former classmates ridiculed her for being too tight, and her students bluntly said that no one could stand this teacher.
Only he could remember his mother playing the violin and her expression as she strummed her rosary beads and prayed.
This book contains seven novels written by Shusaku Endo in memory of his deceased mother, including unpublished works discovered in 2020. "Mother" is Endo's first gateway to thinking about faith. He plunged his pen into the gloomy and cold Dalian, the swaying sun in Tokyo, and the dark and foggy Kyushu. With grief and longing, he salvaged and pieced together a shadow of the overlap of reality and fiction - the image of a mother who was disciplined by society and bound by her family, but still broke through the shackles to implement the artist's personality and adhered to her faith in the gaps.
