Silence: A Novel by Shusaku Endo

Silence: A Novel by Shusaku Endo

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"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Review of Books

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. 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.

REVIEWS

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

"One of the best historical novels by anyone, ever.” ― David Mitchell

“Silence was in the back of my mind the whole time I was working [on Boxers & Saints]. When I got stuck, I would close my eyes and ask for Endo’s intercession.” ― Gene Luen Yang, MacArthur Fellow and author of Boxers & Saints

PRODUCT DETAILS
Trade Paperback
Publisher: Picador Modern Classics
ISBN:  978-1250082244
Pages:  368