Silence
Editorial SAINT MARTIN'S GRIFFIN,U.S.
España peninsular
- Editorial SAINT MARTIN'S GRIFFIN,U.S.
- ISBN13 9781250082244
- ISBN10 1250082242
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 240
- Año de Edición 2016
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Paperback
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Literatura InglesaSilence
Editorial SAINT MARTIN'S GRIFFIN,U.S.
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver""Silence "I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-"The New York Times Book Review" "" "" Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs. Shusaku Endois one of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers of the twentieth century, and "Silence "is widely considered to be his great masterpiece.