SILENCE (FILM TIE-IN) by Endo Shusaku ( 9780720614480 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

SILENCE (FILM TIE-IN)

By:

Endo Shusaku

Format:

Hardback

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£12.99

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ISBN 10:

0720614481

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9780720614480

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Publisher:

PETER OWEN PUBLISHERS

Pub. date:

1 December, 2016

Edition:

Special edition

Pages:

314

Description:

A special edition hardback of Shusaku Endo's classic novel set in feudal Japan. This edition is jacketed to tie-in with the release of the Martin Scorsese movie adaptation of Silence, starring Andrew Garfield and Liam Neeson, which is out in cinemas in 2017.

Synopsis:

In 1637 two Portuguese missionaries undertake a perilous search for their Jesuit tutor missing on the hostile islands of Japan. The Shogun and his Samurai have purged the land of Western influence, rooting out Christians and subjecting them to a fate worse than death - torture until they renounce the word of God. Father Rodrigues knows that if they are discovered, they face the same brutal treatment as the persecuted Christian peasantry; the same mistreatment that - if the rumours are to be believed - caused their tutor to renounce his faith. The deeper Rodrigues journeys into Japan, the closer he comes to the truth, and the more he finds himself questioning the meaning of God's silence in answer to their prayers and to the suffering of the Japanese Christians.

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