Introduction by Martin Scorsese, whose film adaptation of the book is currently in production. How do you tell the story of Christian faith? The difficulty, the crisis, of believing? How do you describe the struggle? There have been many great twentieth century novelists drawn to the subject – Graham Greene, of course, and François Mauriac, Georges… Continue Reading Extract from Shusake Endo’s Silence, with an introduction by Martin Scorsese.

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