description: "In my opinion one of the finest novels of our time." - Graham GreeneShusaku Endo is Japan's foremost novelist, and Silence is generally regarded to be his masterpiece. In a perfect fusion of treatment and theme, this powerful novel tells the story of a seventeenth-century Portuguese priest in Japan at the height of the fearful persecution of the small Christian community.
language: English
title: Silence
titlecomplete: Silence
characters: Tokugawa Inoue, Sebastião Rodrigues, Cristóvão Ferreira, Kichijiro
genres: Fiction, Japan, Classics, Religion, Japanese Literature, Historical, Historical Fiction, Christianity, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 32683
places: Nagasaki, Japan
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Tanizaki Prize 谷崎潤一郎賞
publisher: Kodansha International, LTD.