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Silence

Author: Shusaku Endo

Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs.

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Description

Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs.

Shusaku Endo is one of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers of the twentieth century, and Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece.

“Somber, delicate, and startlingly empathetic.” — John Updike

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Additional information

Weight 0.5 kg
Dimensions 8.2 × 5.4 × 0.7 cm
ISBN

9781250082244

Author

Shusaku Endo

Published Date

2016

Publisher

Picador Modern Classics

Format

Paperback

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