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Silence : a novel
遠藤周作, author.
New York : Picador, 2016.
"Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Times Book Review 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 Endois 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"--
Bibliographic Information
| Format: | Book |
|---|---|
| Author: | 遠藤周作, 1923-1996, |
| Subject: |
Jesuits Christians Persecution Faith and reason |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Picador, 2016. |
| ISBN: | 9781250082244 1250082242 |
| Series: | Picador modern classics |
| Notes: | "Originally published in Japanese under the title Chinmoku by Monumenta Nipponica" -- Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references. |
| Course: |
ENG389 |
Availability at HKSYU Library
| Location | Call number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| English Book (4/F) | 895.635 END 2016 | Available |