Silence
Shūsaku Endō (Author), William Johnston (Translator), Cormac McCarthy Library (Wittliff Collections (Texas State University))
Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Portuguese missionary in Japan administers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ
Print Book, English, 1980
Taplinger Publishing Company, New York, 1980