Silence - Picador Modern Classics Author:Shusaku Endo, William Johnston (Translator) Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelti... more »es that test their own beliefs.« less