Shiokari Pass

by Ayako Miura

Book Overview

This book is based on a true story of a man's incredible spiritual journey and conversion. We first meet him when he is a ten-year-old boy. I loved reading about the spiritual and developmental... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804815291
• ISBN13: 9780804815291
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

inspired by an historical incident

Shiokari Pass was inspired by a real person who sacrificed his own life to stop a runaway train before it could crash and kill everyone on it. Miura's style of writing is simple and straightforward to begin with, but I would have preferred an English translation that wasn't quite so starkly simple in vocabulary and sentence structure. While the main plot (with lots of soul-searching and some tender romance) is gripping and thoughtful, the book is also interesting from historical and cultural perspectives, as it effectively describes various kinds of friction between the social classes, as well as the horror with which much of Japanese society regarded the "foreign religion" of Christianity at one time. Decades since it was first published, Shiokari Pass continues to be one of the two most beloved works of Ayako Miura, a best-selling Japanese novelist. The other one is Hyoten (Freezing Point), the award-winning debut novel that set off a nation-wide social phenomenon called the "Hyoten Boom" in the late 60s.

Shiokari Pass

Very dramatic story of a man, who became Christian when Christianity was not so acceptable in Japan, and people around him. First part of the story is little slow that I had to be patient to continue reading. But as the story goes you feel the strugle of the man questioning about meaning of life, love, and how he began to see these things through his friend and his beautiful sister. At the end of the story, a man became an idividual who would give up his life for other people. I could not stop my tears falling on my cheeks.

Excellent look into Japanese culture

I've read this book and passed it on. Also purchased it in Japanese to give away. Very powerful book.