{"product_id":"9781250082275","title":"Silence","description":"Shusaku Endo is one of Japan's foremost novelists, and  \u003ci\u003eSilence \u003c\/i\u003e is generally regarded to be his masterpiece. In a perfect fusion of treatment and theme, this powerful novel tells the story of a seventeenth-century Portuguese priest in Japan at the height of the fearful persecution of the small Christian community.\r\n\r\n Written mostly in the form of a letter by its central character, the novel's theme of a silent God who accompanies a believer during times of adversity was greatly influenced by the Catholic Endo's experience of religious discrimination in Japan, racism in France and debilitating tuberculosis.\r\n  \u003ci\u003e\r\n Silence \u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinarily haunting and powerful novel, deceptive in its simplicity, yet elegant and unyielding. Never moralizing yet intensely moral, like all great works of literature  \u003ci\u003eSilence \u003c\/i\u003e appeals to us all to consider what it is to be a human being as we navigate our way between heaven and earth.\r\n \r\n -  With an foreword by Martin Scorsese\r\n -  The paperback will include movie tie-in art","brand":"Shusaku Endo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":53077556232352,"sku":"9781250082275","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_35519fce-3550-4a62-95be-264fcc293689.jpg?v=1764778634","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781250082275","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}