Silence
Autor Shusaku Endoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 iul 2026
""Silence "I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-"The New York Times Book Review"
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"" 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.
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ISBN-13: 9781685782504
ISBN-10: 1685782507
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Word on Fire
ISBN-10: 1685782507
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Word on Fire
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Launched in 1967 to both controversy and acclaim, Silence has solidified its reputation as Shusaku Endo's defining achievement and one of the genre's most influential classics.
Launched in 1967 to both controversy and acclaim, Silence has solidified its reputation as Shusaku Endo's defining achievement and one of the genre's most influential classics.
Notă biografică
Shusaku Endo, born in Tokyo in 1923, was raised by his mother and 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 and 1953. 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, and the Tanizaki Prize, and was widely considered the greatest Japanese novelist of his time.