Silence
Picador Classic
Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And I keep turning over in my mind the thought that I am at the end of the earth, in a place which you do not know and which your whole lives through you will never visit.It is 1640 and Father Sebastian Rodrigues, an idealistic Jesuit priest, sets sail for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Christians there. He is also desperate to discover the truth about his former mentor, rumoured to have renounced his faith under torture. Rodrigues cannot believe the stories about a man he so revered, but as his journey takes him deeper into Japan…
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Weitere Autoren: Johnston, William (Übers.) / Scorsese, Martin (Einf.) / Johnston, William (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4472-9985-1
- EAN: 9781447299851
- Produktnummer: 17515148
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.2 cm 241 g
- Gewicht: 241
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
Shusaku Endo is widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese authors of the late twentieth century. Born in 1923, he won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. His novels, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, include The Sea and Poison, Wonderful Fool, Deep River and Silence. He died in 1996.
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