Silence (Film Tie-In) - Rilegato

Shusaku Endo; Martin Scorsese

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ISBN 10: 0720614481 ISBN 13: 9780720614480

Casa editrice: Peter Owen Publishers, 2016

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless --David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks and Ghostwritten

This is a masterpiece. There can be no higher praise. --Daily Telegraph

A remarkable work . . . sombre, delicate and startlingly empathetic. --John Updike

L'autore:

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 Samurai, The Sea and Poison, Wonderful Fool, Deep River and Silence. He died in 1996.

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• Editore: Peter Owen Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0720614481
• ISBN 13: 9780720614480
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 314