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Thursday, 31 January 2013

The Samurai – Shusaku Endo


In the 17th century, the first Japanese ever to set foot in Europe travel to Rome on a diplomatic mission. All are baptised, but upon returning to Japan they discover that the Shoguns no longer wish to forge links with the West, nor will they tolerate the Christian religion. The Samurai who have until now reviled their adoptive religion, begin to find it may be all that is left for them. The events in this story actually took place. Unabridged. Read by David Holt.

Silence – Shusaku Endo


Recipient of the 1966 Tanizaki Prize, it has been called Endo’s supreme achievement” and “one of the twentieth century’s finest novels”. Considered controversial ever since its first publication, it tackles the thorniest religious issues of belief and faith head on. A novel of historical fiction, it is the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to seventeenth century Japan, who endured persecution that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion. Unabridged. Read by David Holt.