Silence

Description:

An historical novel by Japanese writer Shusaku Endo telling the story of a young Portuguese missionary in 17th Century Japan. After being smuggled into the country a Jesuit missionary fresh from the seminary finds the Christian population have been forced underground by a government eager to stamp out foreign interference and values. Consequently he quickly finds himself a fugitive in a strange and frightening land and begins to doubt his mission due to the silence of his god.

subjects: Fiction,  Christians,  History,  Missionaries in Fiction,  Civilization,  Missionaries,  Japanese literature,  Persecution,  Missionaries, fiction,  Japan, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, christian, historical

Places: Japan

Times: 16th century