num_pages: 306
description: 'Silence' is the most important novel of the acclaimed Japanese author Shusaku Endo and its subject matter proved highly controversial following its publication in Japan in 1967.A Japanese Catholic, Endo tells the story of two idealistic seventeenth-century missionaries attempting to shore up the oppressed Japanese Christian movement. Father Rodrigues has come to Japan to find the truth behind unthinkable rumours that his famous teacher Ferreira has renounced his faith. But after his arrival Rodrigues discovers that the only way to help the brutally persecuted Christians may be to apostatize himself.
language: English
title: Silence
titlecomplete: Silence
characters: Sebastião Rodrigues, Cristóvão Ferreira, Tokugawa Inoue, Kichijiro
genres: Fiction, Historical, Religion, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Christianity
ratings_count: 32684
places: Nagasaki, Japan
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Tanizaki Prize 谷崎潤一郎賞
publisher: Peter Owen Publishers