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Author:

End, Shsaku, 1923-1996, author.

Title:

Silence / Shsaku End ; translated from the Japanese by William Johnston ; with a foreword by Martin Scorsese.

Edition:

First Picador Modern Classics movie tie-in edition.

Publisher:

Picador Modern Classics,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xxii, 212, 20 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Catholic Church--Japan--History--Fiction.
Christian missionaries--Japan--History--Fiction.
Japan--History--History--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Other Authors:

Johnston, William, 1925- translator.

Other Titles:

Chinmoku. English

Notes:

Includes discussion guide.

Summary:

Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Portuguese missionary in Japan administers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ.

ISBN:

1250082277 (pbk.) :
9781250082275 (pbk.) :

Locations:

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

HHPC765 -- Laurens Public Library (Laurens)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)