Book guide
Silence
Two priests enter a hostile Japan and face the terrible silence of God.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalBetrayalHistoricalResistanceLiteraryBetrayalLiteraryIdentity crisis
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About Silence
In seventeenth-century Japan, two Portuguese Jesuits search for their missing mentor and minister to persecuted Christians under brutal pressure to renounce their faith. As suffering mounts, Endo’s novel tests faith, doubt, and the cost of spiritual conviction.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- religious persecution
- torture
- execution
- death
