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Shลซsaku Endลโ€™s Swamp

John T. R. Terry

Silence, the haunting 1966 Shลซsaku Endล novel of faith, apostasy, and martyrdom in seventeenth-century Japan, tells the story of a Jesuit priest, Sebastiรฃo Rodrigues, in search of a former...