After learning of a young woman named Rajini Puniral, who lives in a village near Varanasi and who professes to have been Japanese in a prior life, Isobe determines to go to India in search of the woman.Īt an informational meeting prior to the trip, Isobe recognizes Mitsuko, a hospital volunteer with whom his wife had bonded in her last days.
promise!” In an attempt to fulfill her request, Isobe writes to a professor at the University of Virginia who is doing research on people who claim to have experienced previous lives. After her death, her final words haunt him: “I. Isobe, confronted with the fact that his mate of 35 years has cancer, comes to realize his dependence on his wife, whom he had taken for granted up to that point.
The novel begins with an account of the months just before and after the death of Isobe’s wife. The novel examines the internal journeys of four of the travelers-Isobe, Kiguchi, Numada, and Mitsuko-and explores their motivations for going to India, the fulfillment of their quests, and their discoveries along the way. The novel Deep River centers on a visit to India by a group of Japanese tourists. The Japanese writer Shūsaku Endō (1923– 96) was a Christian author who embraced a faith that combined both Eastern and Western spirituality.
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