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.
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.
A young Portuguese Jesuit, Sebastiao Rodrigues (based on the historical figure, Guiseppe Chiara), is sent to Japan to succor the local church and investigate reports that his mentor, Father Crist?vao Ferreira, has committed apostasy. (ferreira is a historical figure who apostatized...
"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of Books