Synopsis
'Flawless' – David Mitchell
'A masterpiece’ – Daily Telegraph
Winner of the Tanizaki Prize
Published in 1967 in Japan to huge controversy, Silence is Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed novel and a classic of its genre.
Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in the 1640s, sets sail for Japan on a determined mission to help the brutally oppressed Japanese Christians. He...
Details
04 April 2024272 pages
9781035038862Imprint: Picador
Reviews
One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . FlawlessDavid Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks
This is a masterpiece. There can be no higher praiseDaily Telegraph
One of the finest novels of our timeGraham Greene
A remarkable work . . . sombre, delicate and startlingly empatheticJohn Updike, New Yorker
