Silence
題名:
Silence
著者:
Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996.
Johnston, William.
ISBN（國際標準書號）:
9781250082275
統一題名:
Chinmoku. English
版本:
First Picador Modern Classics movie tie-in edition.
出版資訊:
New York : Picador, 2017.
規格:
xxii, 212, 20 p. ; 21 cm
叢書:
Picador modern classics
Picador modern classics.
叢書題名:
Picador modern classics
Picador modern classics.
一般附註:
Translated from: Chinmoku.
摘要:
"Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Times Book Review. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
主題:
| Christians -- Japan -- Fiction. |
| Persecution -- Japan -- Fiction. |
| Faith and reason -- Fiction. |
| Japan -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction. |
| Jesuits -- Portugal -- Fiction. |
摘要:
"Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Times Book Review. 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"--