Silence

novel by Endō
Also known as: “Chimmoku”

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  • Endō Shūsaku
    In Endō Shūsaku: Silence

    …most powerful novels, Chinmoku (1966; Silence), is a fictionalized account of Portuguese priests who travel to Japan as missionaries and the subsequent slaughter of their Japanese converts. Controversially, the novel describes scenes in which priests and converts are forced to renounce their Catholic faith by stepping on a fumi-e, an…

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