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PublisherPicador

ISBN-101250082242

ISBN-139781250082244

eBay Product ID (ePID)211811540

Product Key Features

Book TitleSilence : a Novel

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicReligious, Christian / Historical, Literary, Historical

Publication Year2016

GenreFiction

AuthorShusaku Endo

Book SeriesPicador Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.2 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-037146

Reviews"Somber, delicate, and startlingly empathetic." -- John Updike "One of the best historical novels by anyone, ever." -- David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks "I think about Silence, and Endo's work more generally, all the time." -- Phil Klay, author of Redeployment and Winner of the 2014 National Book Award "Silence was in the back of my mind the whole time I was working [on Boxers & Saints]. When I got stuck, I would close my eyes and ask for Endo's intercession." -- Gene Luen Yang, MacArthur Fellow and author of Boxers & Saints "All of Endo's work has been influential. He truly understands what it means to be both of--and not of--a place." -- Caryl Phillips, Guggenheim Fellow and award-winning author of The Lost Child, Endo was a Catholic, but you don't have to be one to find the novel really thought-provoking, and moving, and involving. It's a great book. It's a great historical novel....The characters are complex, and multi-layered, and flawed. Their motives are messy and tangled, like our motives are messy and tangled. It's a great achievement, and I love the book., "Thought-provoking and moving...Complex and multilayered...[ Silence ] is a great achievement, and I love the book."--David Mitchell, author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal895.6/35

Edition DescriptionMedia tie-in

SynopsisShusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times , soon to be 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 of the twentieth century, and Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece., 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 of the twentieth century, and Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece.

LC Classification NumberPL849.N4A2 2016