![]() Endo crafts Rodrigues’ journey of ministry to the brutally impoverished Christian Japanese peasants, through his capture and imprisonment, to his ultimate trial of having to choose between the torture of the faithful or his own public apostasy. ![]() With grim realism and authentic spiritual insight, Mr. Silence traces, via a deeply introspective narrative, the sufferings of a Jesuit missionary of fervent and resolute faith, Rodrigues, who sneaks into Japan during the harshest attempt by Japanese authorities to stamp out all public vestiges of Christianity. Endo’s Silence deserves undivided attention of its own. Endo’s critics, is too beautiful and complicated a work of art to be seen merely through Mr. Yet the book, alternately revered and reviled by Mr. Endo’s work has recently garnered renewed attention with Hollywood big-wig Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of his most famous novel, Silence. Endo wrote from a rare perspective-that of a Japanese Catholic in a culture that maintained a centuries-long stringent persecution of Christianity. Novelist Shusaku Endo has been called a “Japanese Graham Greene” because his writings grapple with the darkest tangles of human weakness and the reprieve of divine grace. Silenceby Shusaku Endo (Tuttle Publishing, 1969) “Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one more wretchedly alone than the priest who does not measure up to his task… Yet God bestows upon man a better fate than human knowledge could possibly think of or devise.” -Rodrigues, Silence In Shusaku Endo’s Silence, Rodrigues’s devotion to the face of Christ becomes the key to understanding his particular path to Calvary….
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