Silence

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.

Set in

• ★
  Sotome Coast · Japan

  hidden Christian villages
  ★ primary
• Nagasaki · Japan

  Christian persecution site
• Kurosaki · Japan
• Gotō Islands · Japan