Silence

By Shūsaku Endō

Subjects: Missionaries in Fiction, History, Japan, fiction, Fiction, christian, historical, Fiction, Persecution, Missionaries, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Missionaries, Japanese literature, Christians, Civilization

Description: An historical novel by Japanese writer Shusaku Endo telling the story of a young Portuguese missionary in 17th Century Japan. After being smuggled into the country a Jesuit missionary fresh from the seminary finds the Christian population have been forced underground by a government eager to stamp out foreign interference and values. Consequently he quickly finds himself a fugitive in a strange and frightening land and begins to doubt his mission due to the silence of his god.