Learn new perspectives on Japanese writer Shūsaku Endō’s final novel about India with Texas Christian University professors Mark Dennis and Darren Middleton. Exploring themes of suffering, redemption, interfaith understanding, epiphany and embodiment, Endo’s novel unflinchingly documents and offers affirmative insights into the human condition, all set in the holy city of Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges River during the time of Indira Gandhi’s assassination.