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Silence

Shusaku Endo

253 pages

About this book

Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Portuguese missionary in Japan administers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ.

Themes
Dark & BroodingHeartbreakingPhilosophy & Big IdeasQuietly DevastatingSpiritually ChargedThought-ProvokingFaith tested by silenceThe cost of compassion
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