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A Novel

Shusaku Endō's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times. 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.

Silence

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Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver "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.

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Shusaku Endo; William Johnston (Translator); Martin Scorsese (Foreword by)

Silence

Shusaku Endo; William Johnston (Translator); Martin Scorsese (Foreword by)

Silence

Shusaku Endo; William Johnston (Translator); Martin Scorsese (Foreword by)

Silence

Shusaku Endo; Martin Scorsese (Foreword by); William Johnston (Translator)

Silence

Shusaku Endo; Martin Scorsese (Foreword by); William Johnston (Translator)

Silence

Shusaku Endo; Martin Scorsese (Foreword by); William Johnston (Translator)

Silence.