Silence Film Tie In

Informationen zum Autor Shusaku Endo; translated from the Japanese by William Johnston; and with a Foreword by Martin Scorsese Klappentext Shusaku Endo's New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times , now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver. " Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."- The New York Review of Books 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. 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Shusaku Endo
• Assisted by: William Johnston (Translation)
• Publisher: Picador Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781250082275
• ISBN: 978-1-250-08227-5
• Series: Picador Modern Classics; Picador Modern Classics; Picador Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature