Silence : a novel /

"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...

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Main Author: Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Japanese
Published: New York : Picador, 2016.
Edition:First Picador edition.
Series:Picador modern classics.
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