Silence
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Silence’ is the most important novel of the acclaimed Japanese author Shusaku Endo and its subject matter proved highly controversial following its publication in Japan in 1967.A Japanese Catholic, Endo tells the story of two idealistic seventeenth-century missionaries attempting to shore up the oppressed Japanese Christian movement. Father Rodrigues has come to Japan to….Read More
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