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Silence / Shusaku Endo ; translated from the Japanese by William Johnston with an introduction by Martin Scorsese.

Silence / Shusaku Endo ; translated from the Japanese by William Johnston with an introduction by Martin Scorsese.
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ISBN 9780720614480 (hbk.)
0720614481 (hbk.)
Name Endo, Shusaku, 1923-1996 author.
Uniform title Chinmoku. English
Title Silence / Shusaku Endo ; translated from the Japanese by William Johnston with an introduction by Martin Scorsese.
Published London Peter Owen, 2016.
©1969
Description 302 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes "Originally published in Japanese under the title Chinmoku by Monumenta Nipponica"--Title page verso.
Summary Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Times Book Review 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 Endois 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.
Language note Translated from the Japanese.
Subjects Catholic Church -- Japan -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction
Missionaries -- Japan -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction
Japan -- Religion -- 1600-1868 -- Fiction
Genre Historical fiction
Other Names Johnston, William, 1925- translator.
Scorsese, Martin writer of introduction.
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