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Silence

Why You’ll Love This Book:

  • Deep exploration of faith under persecution
  • Set in 1640s Japan during Christian oppression
  • Focuses on a Jesuit priest’s moral dilemma
  • Widely acclaimed as a flawless historical novel
Silence

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Weight 100g
Format

Hardback
Publisher

Marylebone House
Publication Date

15/12/2016
Pages

304
ISBN: 9781910674277

‘One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless.’ David Mitchell
Silence is Shusaku Endo’s most highly acclaimed novel. It is the story of an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest, Father Sebastian Rodrigues, who in the 1640s sets sail for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Japanese Christians and to discover the truth about his former mentor, who is rumoured to have rejected ‘glorious martyrdom’ and apostatized. But once faced with the reality of religious persecution Rodrigues is himself forced to make an impossible choice: whether to abandon his flock or his God.

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‘One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless.’ David Mitchell
Silence is Shusaku Endo’s most highly acclaimed novel. It is the story of an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest, Father Sebastian Rodrigues, who in the 1640s sets sail for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Japanese Christians and to discover the truth about his former mentor, who is rumoured to have rejected ‘glorious martyrdom’ and apostatized. But once faced with the reality of religious persecution Rodrigues is himself forced to make an impossible choice: whether to abandon his flock or his God.

Silence
Shusaku Endo
Find more titles in: Church Books
Silence

Why You’ll Love This Book:

  • Deep exploration of faith under persecution
  • Set in 1640s Japan during Christian oppression
  • Focuses on a Jesuit priest’s moral dilemma
  • Widely acclaimed as a flawless historical novel
Silence
Shusaku Endo

‘One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless.’ David Mitchell
Silence is Shusaku Endo’s most highly acclaimed novel. It is the story of an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest, Father Sebastian Rodrigues, who in the 1640s sets sail for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Japanese Christians and to discover the truth about his former mentor, who is rumoured to have rejected ‘glorious martyrdom’ and apostatized. But once faced with the reality of religious persecution Rodrigues is himself forced to make an impossible choice: whether to abandon his flock or his God.

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‘One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless.’ David Mitchell
Silence is Shusaku Endo’s most highly acclaimed novel. It is the story of an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest, Father Sebastian Rodrigues, who in the 1640s sets sail for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Japanese Christians and to discover the truth about his former mentor, who is rumoured to have rejected ‘glorious martyrdom’ and apostatized. But once faced with the reality of religious persecution Rodrigues is himself forced to make an impossible choice: whether to abandon his flock or his God.

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£11.99

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‘One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless.’ David Mitchell
Silence is Shusaku Endo’s most highly acclaimed novel. It is the story of an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest, Father Sebastian Rodrigues, who in the 1640s sets sail for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Japanese Christians and to discover the truth about his former mentor, who is rumoured to have rejected ‘glorious martyrdom’ and apostatized. But once faced with the reality of religious persecution Rodrigues is himself forced to make an impossible choice: whether to abandon his flock or his God.

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‘One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless.’ David Mitchell
Silence is Shusaku Endo’s most highly acclaimed novel. It is the story of an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest, Father Sebastian Rodrigues, who in the 1640s sets sail for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Japanese Christians and to discover the truth about his former mentor, who is rumoured to have rejected ‘glorious martyrdom’ and apostatized. But once faced with the reality of religious persecution Rodrigues is himself forced to make an impossible choice: whether to abandon his flock or his God.

Additional information

Weight 100g
Format

Hardback
Publisher

Marylebone House
Publication Date

15/12/2016
Pages

304
ISBN: 9781910674277
Shusaku Endo
Shusaku Endo(1923-96) is widely regarded as one of the finest novelists of the twentieth century. Writing from the unusual perspective of being Japanese and also a practising Catholic, he won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. His novels, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, include The Sea and Poison, Wonderful Fool, Deep River and Silence. He died in 1996.

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