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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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Silence

by Shusaku Endo

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ISBN13: 9780800871864
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A novel of faith and doubt set in medieval Japan. Endo relates the history of the Japanese Christians who were persecuted after the rise to power of the samurai in the 17th century, and in particular the plight of Japanese priests who were forced to choose between their identity as Christians and as Japanese.

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"Endo's best novel....A fine, stirring work which has won him many literary prizes in Japan and been widely translated." Times Literary Supplement

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"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. — The New York Review of Books
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ISBN:
9780800871864
Translator:
Johnston, William
Author:
Johnston, William
Author:
Endo, Shusaku
Publisher:
Taplinger Publishing Company
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Christian Life
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Asian - General
Subject:
Religious - Historical
Subject:
Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works
Subject:
Japanese literature
Subject:
Religious - General
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Priests
Copyright:
1969
Series Volume:
9
Publication Date:
March 1980
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
294 p.
Dimensions:
830x550x67 63
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