Silence
Shūsaku Endō
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
4.04
· 26 ratings · 201 pages · Published: 1966
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.
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