num_pages: 219
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: Sebastião Rodrigues, Tokugawa Inoue, Kichijiro, Cristóvão Ferreira
genres: Religion, Historical Fiction, Historical, Japanese Literature, Novels, Literature, Japan, Classics, Fiction, Christianity
ratings_count: 32682
places: Nagasaki, Japan
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Tanizaki Prize 谷崎潤一郎賞
publisher: Taplinger Publishing Company