Title: God as Onion
Product review: Endo introduces five Japanese who intersect on their respective pilgrimages to India. Typical of the international traveling Japanese, these individuals--except for one-- arrive together in the all too familiar "tour group." Yet, each has an individual quest and offers differing examinations to the question of "why I am." The book begins with individual chapters which introduce each of the pilgrims prior to their journey to India. When the scene shifts to India, the story takes on a quality akin to a "travel piece" that one might find in a magazine--it reaches that level of realism--that life does not always wrap up nicely. Endo's symbolism also leaves me wondering: what does it mean if God is an Onion.
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