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Picked up Silence knowing almost nothing about it, and I had to look into the historical context. Reading about the persecution of Christians in 17th-century Japan was.. not easy to digest. I like books that make me learn something new. Anyways, reading Endo’s Silence made that far fetched history felt personal. The contrast between the priest's rich and soulful inner world, and the silence of the outside world - God’s silence, the state’s indifference, and the detachment of the people - are very well laid out by Endō, it was so heartbroken.
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Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Liam Neeson, Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield.
With an introduction by Martin Scorsese
'One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless' - David Mitchell
Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in the 1640s, sets sail for Japan on a determined mission to help the brutally oppressed Japanese Christians and to discover the truth behind unthinkable rumours that his famous teacher Ferreira has renounced his faith. Once faced with the realities of religious persecution Rodrigues himself is forced to make an impossible…
