Displaying 1 of 1 2016 Format: Book Author: Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996 author. Title: Silence / Shūsaku Endō ; translated from the Japanese by William Johnston ; with a foreword by Martin Scorsese. Edition: First Picador edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Picador, 2016. ©1969 Description: xxii, 212 pages, 20 pages ; 21 cm. Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher. Series: Picador modern classics Picador modern classics. Subjects: Jesuits -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction. Christians -- Japan -- Fiction. Priests -- Fiction. Jesuits -- Persecutions -- Fiction. Japan -- Church history -- Fiction. Japan -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction. Japan -- Civilization -- 1600-1868 -- Fiction. Genre: Historical fiction. Other Author: Scorsese, Martin, writer of foreword. Other Title: Chinmoku. English Notes: "Originally published in Japanese under the title Chinmoku by Monumenta Nipponica"--Title page verso. Includes discussion questions. Includes bibliographical references. LCCN: 2015037146 ISBN: 9781250082244 (pbk.) 1250082242 (pbk.) Other Number: 907965948 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 631027 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: FICTION Endo Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
