![]() Garrpe and Rodrigues decide that it would be best for everyone if they separate and leave the village. One day, officials come to the village looking for hidden Christian items. The priests have little contact with other villages and learn nothing about the fate of Ferreira. Their contact, Kichijiro, locates a group of Christian peasants willing to hide the priests in a charcoal hut just outside their village. Santa Marta is deemed too ill to travel, and so only Rodrigues and Garrpe arrive in Tomogi, Japan. After much discussion the priests obtain Valignano's permission to secure a Chinese ship and continue on to Japan. Valignano, the administrator for the Society of Jesus working in Macao, forbids the priests from continuing their journey. However, once the three priests land in China, they are informed that all Portuguese ships from Macao to Japan have been prohibited. Rodrigues, Francisco Garrpe, and Juan de Santa Marta gain permission from their Superiors in Portugal to make the journey from Lisbon to Macao. Ferreira has been working in Japan for over thirty years but correspondence from the priest abruptly ceased, and only a few tales of how Ferreira apostatized following several torturous days suspended in the pit tell what happened. They hope togain entrance into Japan in order to locate their former teacher, Christovao Ferreira. Rodrigues and two of his friends journey to Macao, China. More specifically, Endo traces the life of Sebastian Rodrigues, a Portuguese missionary from the Society of Jesus, as he tries to survive as a Christian priest working in Japan. ![]() Ivor Kaplan's dustjacket shows an isolated, crucified Christ.Silence is the story of the Japanese persecution of Christians that occurred in the 1600s. Frequently compared to Greene's The Power and the Glory its genius is of a similar magnitude, but it is a truly unique novel. The lead character's inability to reconcile the imagined glory of martyrdom with the grotesque reality is especially affecting. One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, a meditation on faith and suffering. Overall, this is a very good (or better) copy. The text blocks are bright and white throughout, though so slightly foxed on the top edge. The boards are free from notable chips and marks, and are pristine in the black publisher's cloth. This casts this copy down from very near fine condition. There is a major stain on the rear panel, at the bottom of the spine and at the front panel. The dust wrapper, featuring the frontal Graham Greene review. "A masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama." - The New York Review of Books.įirst UK edition, first printing. is a great achievement, and I love the book." - David Mitchell, author. 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." - from the rear outer cover. 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. 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. "The Classic Novel of Enduring Faith in Dangerous Times. Translated from the Japanese by William Johnston. Includes About the Author About the Translator List of Other Books by Shusaku Endo Foreword by Martin Scorsese Translator's Preface Prologue Appendix: Diary of an Officer at the Christian Residence and An Expanded Discussion Guide for Silence By Shusaku Endo consisting of Praise for Silence Publisher's Note A Note on Silence Meet Shusaku Endo Endo's Influence Discussion Questions and Topics and Recommended Further Reading. As new condition color photographic softcover wraps.
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