TY  - BOOK
AU  - Endō,Shūsaku
AU  - Johnston,William
AU  - Scorsese,Martin
TI  - Silence: a novel 
SN  - 9781250082275
AV  - PL849.N4 A2 2016
U1  - 895.6/35 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador
KW  - Missionaries
KW  - Japan
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - "Originally published in Japanese under the title Chinmoku by Monumenta Nipponica" -- Title page verso; "An expanded reading group guide included inside" -- back cover
N2  - "Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times.  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."--
ER  -