Silence
By: by Shūsaku Endō ; translated by William Johnston
Publisher: Taplinger Pub. Co.
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780800871864
Copyright date: 1969
Work titles: Chimmoku
Description: Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Portuguese missionary in Japan administers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ.
Notes: Translation of Chimmoku.