Category:
Adults,
Historical Fiction,
Literature,
NovelLanguage:
EnglishKeywords:
Christian Historical Fiction Japan Jesuit Samurai SpainWritten by Shusaku Endo
Read by David Holt
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Copyright: 2008
Publisher: Audible Studios
Duration: 7 hours, 39 minutes, 53 seconds
Chapters: 11
Book Description
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Recipient of the 1966 Tanizaki Prize, it has been called Endo’s supreme achievement” and “one of the twentieth century’s finest novels”. Considered controversial ever since its first publication, it tackles the thorniest religious issues of belief and faith head on. A novel of historical fiction, it is the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to seventeenth century Japan, who endured persecution that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion.