00-Shusaku Endo - Silence.txt
Silence
Unabridged 1966
By Shusaku Endo
Narrated by David Holt
Publisher Audible Inc
Length 7:40:06
Audible Release Date 12-17-09
Publisher's Summary
Recipient of the 1966 Tanizaki Prize, it has been called Endo's supreme achievement" and "one of the twentieth century's finest novels".
Considered controversial ever since its first publication, it tackles the thorniest religious issues of belief and faith head on.
A novel of historical fiction, it is the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to seventeenth century Japan, who endured persecution that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion.
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