Silence
by Shūsaku Endō, William Johnston
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(105 ratings)253 pages1966PenguinISBN 9780140166064
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About this book
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.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Published
- 1966
- Pages
- 253
- ISBN
- 9780140166064
- Language
- en
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