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2 lip 2010 · Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Portuguese missionary in Japan administers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ
28 mar 2021 · 306 pages ; 19 cm. The story of the persecution of Jesuit priests and Christian converts in 17th century Nagasaki, Japan. Japanese original title on cover romanized: Chinmoku.
5 sty 2016 · Silence: A Novel. Shusaku Endo. St. Martins Press-3PL, Jan 5, 2016 - Fiction - 212 pages. Shusaku Endo's New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, now a...
Silence (Japanese: 沈黙, Hepburn: Chinmoku) is a 1966 novel of theological and historical fiction by Japanese author Shūsaku Endō. It tells the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to 17th-century Japan, who endures persecution in the time of Kakure Kirishitan ("Hidden Christians") that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion .
Endō, a Japanese Catholic, uses the story of two Jesuit priests in search of an apostate Jesuit to explore issues of faith, circumstance, religous colonialism, belief, sin, courage, suffering, martyrdom, etc., especially during periods when God is "silent".
In a perfect fusion of treatment and theme, this powerful novel tells the story of a seventeenth Portuguese priest in Japan at the height of the fearful persecution of the small Christian...
Published in 1966, the novel won the prestigious Tanizaki Prize, one of Japan’s most important literary awards. Silence was adapted into a motion picture by director Martin Scorsese in 2016. Read the full book summary, the full book analysis, and explanations of important quotes from Silence.
