Silence : a novel / Shusaku Endo ; translated from the Japanese by William Johnston ; with a foreword by Martin Scorsese.

Author: Endo, Shusaku, 1923-1996, author.

Edition Statement:First Picador modern classics movie tie-in edition.

ImprintNew York : Picador, 2017.

Descriptionxxiv, 212, 20 pages ; 21 cm.

Note:"Originally published in Japanese under the title Chinmoku by Monumenta Nipponica" -- Title page verso.

Note:"An expanded reading group guide included inside."--Back cover.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (unnumbered page at end).

Note: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. Shusaku Endo is one of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers of the twentieth century, and Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece."-- Provided by publisher.

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