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Shusaku Endo is Japan's foremost novelist, and Silence is generally regarded to be his masterpiece. In a perfect fusion of treatment and theme, this powerful novel tells the story of a seventeenth-century Portuguese priest in Japan at the height of the fearful persecution of the small Christian community. 219 pages, Paperback.
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Jun 14, 2024 · It boldly confronts the concept of a silent God who accompanies a believer in adversity. This powerful theme of the often painful silence of God is what has made the book an enduring piece of literature over the years. Historical Significance: Silence is not just about the personal struggle of Rodrigues. It provides a glimpse into a crucial ...
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 ...
Dec 21, 2016 · Shūsaku Endō’s novel Silence (first published in Japanese in 1966 as Chinmoku, then translated into English in 1969) is slippery and troubling, a book that refuses to behave.It flatters no ...
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 .
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Jan 5, 2016 · Silence: A Novel. Silence. : Shusaku Endo. Henry Holt, Jan 5, 2016 - Fiction - 212 pages. Shusaku Endo's New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, now 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 ...
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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 ...
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