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Endo, Shusaku. Silence. Pan MacMillan, 2016.

eng

Shusaku Endo

Silence

Pan MacMillan
2016

Taschenbuch
256 Seiten
ISBN 9781250082244

Übersetzung: William Johnston

Shusaku Endo's New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver. " Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."- The New York Review of Books _ Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs. Shusaku Endo is one of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers

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of the twentieth century, and _Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece.