Silence by Shūsaku Endō

Silence

Shūsaku Endō

306 pages first pub 1966 (editions)

fiction historical religion challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Portuguese missionary in Japan administers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if...

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