Japanese · b. 1923
Shūsaku Endō was a Japanese novelist, one of the foremost Catholic writers of the twentieth century, best known for Silence, a profound novel of faith and persecution.
Shūsaku Endō, a Japanese Catholic, explored throughout his work the tensions between Christian faith and Japanese culture, and the nature of belief, doubt, and divine silence.
His masterpiece, Silence (1966), set during the brutal persecution of Christians in seventeenth-century Japan, follows a Portuguese missionary forced to confront the apparent silence of God in the face of suffering; it is regarded as one of the great novels of faith and was adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese. His other works include The Samurai and Deep River.
Endō is celebrated as a writer of profound moral and spiritual seriousness, whose fiction grapples unforgettably with faith under pressure.
by Shūsaku Endō
Shūsaku Endō's masterpiece of faith and doubt. A young Portuguese Jesuit smuggles himself into seventeenth-century Japan during the brutal persecution of Christians, only to confront the apparent silence of God in the face of unbearable suffering.
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