# Silence

**Author(s):** Shūsaku Endō
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/silence/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, history
**Pages:** 294
**Publisher:** Taplinger Pub. Co.
**Published:** Tue Jan 01 1980 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780800871864
**ISBN-10:** 0800871863
**ASIN:** B01N7ZET1E
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Historical
**Amazon binding:** $199.99
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/silence

## Description

An historical novel by Japanese writer Shusaku Endo telling the story of a young Portuguese missionary in 17th Century Japan. After being smuggled into the country a Jesuit missionary fresh from the seminary finds the Christian population have been forced underground by a government eager to stamp out foreign interference and values. Consequently he quickly finds himself a fugitive in a strange and frightening land and begins to doubt his mission due to the silence of his god.

## SageChimp reader verdict

Silence has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/silence/verdict.json

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