SOURCE: "In a State of Sin," in San Francisco Review, Vol. 19, Nos. 4 & 5, October/November, 1994, p. 40.
[In the following review, Garber discusses how Endo works out his themes of sinners struggling with morality in the form of a short story before developing them into a novel. Garber uses the short stories from Endo's collection The Final Martyrs to illustrate his point.]
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