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Monday, April 8, 2013
Silence by Shusaku Endo is an impressive historical fiction by likely the most well-known Japanese author in the West. It tells of Christian missionaries who came to Japan to convert. Some people did convert; however, the nobility punished both converts and missionaries. There is a lot of pathos and food for thought in this well-written novel.
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