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Silence
by Shusaku Endo
A Jesuit in Japan. God is silent. People are dying.
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you want to understand faith under torture — what it demands and what it costs and whether it survives
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A Portuguese Jesuit missionary travels to 17th century Japan to find his mentor, who is rumored to have apostatized under torture. What he finds is a community of hidden Christians, a brutally effective persecution, and the question that the novel refuses to answer easily: what does God's silence in the face of suffering mean? Endo was a Japanese Catholic — doubly marginal — and writes from inside the experience of faith tested to its absolute limit. One of the great religious novels in any language. The most formally honest dispatch about what persecution does to belief.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Japan • East Asia
- Voice
- Written by a Japanese author
- Themes
- War & Displacement
