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Silence: Picador Classic
Shusaku Endo
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Description for Silence: Picador Classic
paperback. Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed work and has been called one of the twentieth century's finest novels. As empathetic as it is powerful, it is an astonishing exploration of faith and suffering and an award-winning classic Series: Picador Classic. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 242. Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed work and has been called one of the twentieth century's finest novels. As empathetic as it is powerful, it is an astonishing exploration of faith and suffering and an award-winning classic Series: Picador Classic. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 242. Good clean copy showing light age and shelf wear
With an introduction by Martin Scorsese, director of the film starring Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And I keep turning over in my mind the thought that I am at the end of the earth, in a place which you do not know and which your whole lives through you will never visit. It is 1640 and Father Sebastian Rodrigues, an idealistic Jesuit priest, sets sale for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed ... Read more
With an introduction by Martin Scorsese, director of the film starring Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And I keep turning over in my mind the thought that I am at the end of the earth, in a place which you do not know and which your whole lives through you will never visit. It is 1640 and Father Sebastian Rodrigues, an idealistic Jesuit priest, sets sale for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pan Macmillan London
Condition
Used, Good
Series
Picador Classic
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447299851
SKU
KMK0025180
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Shusaku Endo
Shusaku Endo is widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese authors of the late twentieth century. Born in 1923, he won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. His novels, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, include The Sea and Poison, Wonderful Fool, Deep River and Silence. He died in 1996.
Reviews for Silence: Picador Classic
Silence is a compelling historical fiction, a potent distillation of the paradoxes and ambiguities of faith and, from a Christian author, a daring challenge to religious orthodoxy.
1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
Guardian
A marvellous book . . . Shusaku Endo is giving deep thought to the most basic problems of truth and how in exchanging it ... Read more
1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
Guardian
A marvellous book . . . Shusaku Endo is giving deep thought to the most basic problems of truth and how in exchanging it ... Read more