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Silence Full Book Summary. Shūsaku Endō’s Silence takes place in Japan during the 1600s, shortly after the Japanese government suppressed the Shimabara Rebellion, in which Christian Japanese peasants rebelled against the government’s heavy persecution. After the rebellion’s defeat, many Catholics went underground, continuing to practice ...
Aug 23, 2016 · Silence is considered to be one of the great novels of the twentieth century. A story of religious persecution in seventeenth-century feudal Japan told by an idealist Jesuit priest. It is a fable of idealism and its victims, of suffering and cruelty, of betrayal, disillusionment and ultimate sacrifice. In 1640, Father Sebastian Rodrigues, an ...
Jun 5, 2017 · Yet for years, I’ve seen Silence listed amongst the classics. Having finally read it, I find myself both wishing I’d read it years ago and glad that I read it now, in my thirties, with a few years of experience behind me. The novel begins in the 16th century after Japan leadership has declared Christianity punishable by death and torture.
Silence received the 1966 Tanizaki Prize for the year's best full-length literature. It has also been the subject of extensive analysis. In a review published by The New Yorker, John Updike called Silence "a remarkable work, a sombre, delicate, and startlingly empathetic study of a young Portuguese missionary during the relentless persecution of the Japanese Christians in the early seventeenth ...
- Shūsaku Endō
- 1966
Feb 21, 2021 · Reviewed by. A.R.K. Watson. Buy the Paperback for $12.99. Buy the Hardcover for $19.83. If you are not reading this book in Japanese. If you are not born and bred on the shores of Japan– this book is not written for you. This is not to say that I don’t think everyone should read it (they should) but if you are not a secular or Buddhist ...
Overview. Silence by Japanese novelist Shūsaku Endō is a historical novel set in 17th-century Japan following the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion, when Christians had to go underground to avoid heavy persecution by Japan’s feudal lords. Two Portuguese Jesuit missionaries travel to Japan, where they witness horrible tortures that make them ...
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Full Book Analysis. The novel Silence opens with a prologue that describes the historical, religious, and social background of the novel. The setting is Japan in the 1600s, shortly after the Shimabara Rebellion, in which Christian peasants revolted against the government for heavy persecution. European Christian missionaries had enjoyed an ...
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