![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, it is little wonder that its author was awarded Japan’s highest honour, the Order of Culture, shortly before his death. It is literature at its most perfect, accomplished, profound. It is not possible to praise this tale of religious apostasy highly enough for all the themes it explores, not least the meaning of personal faith in the midst of human suffering in a world gone completely mad. WHEN I AM reading Shūsaku Endō’s Silence (沈黙), I have to keep reminding myself that it is a translation, beautifully effected by William Johnston, whose prose unfolds effortlessly and elegantly like an unfurling scroll of Japanese calligraphy. Let all the earth keep silence before him. ![]() Martin Scorsese, Silence Be still and know that I am God ![]()
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