02173cam a2200409 i 4500 626176610 TxAuBib 20170418120000.0 150928|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015037146 9781250082244 paperback 1250082242 paperback (OCoLC)966517819 B@L B@L eng eng rda rda B@L rda rda OCLCO B@L OCLCF TXJEK TxAuBib OCLCO OCLCF TXJEK TxAuBib rda eng jpn Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996. Silence / Shusaku Endo ; translated by William Johnston ; foreword by Martin Scorsese. New York : Picador, 1969, [2016]. 240 pages. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Picador modern classics "Originally published in Japanese under the title Chinmoku by Monumenta Nipponica" -- Title page verso. "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"-- Provided by publisher. 870L Lexile. 20170418. 1600-1699. Missionaries Japan Fiction. Christians Japan Fiction. Persecution Japan Fiction. Japan Civilization 17th century Fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. Picador modern classics. TXAAL