Silence

Name: Silence
ISBN: 9780800871864

Shûsaku Endô

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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 & force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ.
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Shûsaku Endô(遠藤周作), born in Tokyo in 1923, was raised by his mother & an aunt in Kobe where he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of eleven. At Tokyo's Keio University he majored in French literature, graduating BA in 1949, before furthering his studies in French Catholic literature at the University of Lyon in France between 1950 & 1953. A major theme running through his books, which have been translated into many languages, including English, French, Russian & Swedish, is the failure of Japanese soil to nurture the growth of Christianity. Before his death in 1996, Endo was the recipient of a number of outstanding Japanese literary awards: the Akutagawa Prize, Mainichi Cultural Prize, Shincho Prize, & Tanizaki Prize.(from the backcover of Volcano).