Silencio

Silence, recounts with singular vigor, the laborious attempt of some foreign Jesuit missionaries to Christianize Japan in the 17th century, an enterprise for which they are persecuted and tortured and the strength of their faith is confronted with the harshest tests imaginable. In line with this exciting adventure, during which the most diverse characters come to life and solidity before the reader's eyes, Endo invites us to ask ourselves some of the questions that have most concerned man throughout history, and he does so with such lucidity, elegance and apparent ease that it is difficult not to turn reading into a personal matter. When the work was published in Japan, it was the subject of passionate controversy, won the prestigious Tanizaki Prize, was considered the best novel of the year, and in a short time had sold millions of copies. Today it is considered Endo's most important novel and a fundamental piece to explain certain paths taken by the Japanese narrative of our days.