Silence
About this book
An historical novel by Japanese writer Shusaku Endo telling the story of a young Portuguese missionary in 17th Century Japan. After being smuggled into the country a Jesuit missionary fresh from the seminary finds the Christian population have been forced underground by a government eager to stamp out foreign interference and values. Consequently he quickly finds himself a fugitive in a strange and frightening land and begins to doubt his mission due to the silence of his god.
Subjects
- christians
- civilization
- fiction
- fiction, christian, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- history
- japanese literature
- japan, fiction
- missionaries
- missionaries, fiction
- missionaries in fiction
- persecution