Silence by Shūsaku Endō

Silence

Shūsaku Endō with William Johnston (Translator)

304 pages first pub 1966 (editions)

fiction historical religion challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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With an introduction by Martin Scorsese Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in the 1640s, sets sail for Japan on a determined mission to help the brutally oppressed Japanese Christians and to discover the truth behin...

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