Published originally in 1966 Silence tells the story of two Portuguese Catholic Priests in the 1600s journeying to Japan to find out if the rumors are true. Endos novel elicits a spiritual journey. At that time leaders of the local Catholic Church. Endo is the first Catholic to put it. Scandal Shusaku Endo Author Dodd Mead 0 261p ISBN 978-0-396-09320-6. Contact seller Seller Rating. Shusaku Endo is widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese authors of the late 20th century. His novel Silence was made into a major motion picture and premiered in November 2016. Seine Hauptwerke sind die Romane Schweigen Samurai und Skandal. World Heritage Encyclopedia the aggregation of. Shusaku Endo Van C Gessel Translator Published by Dodd Mead 1988 ISBN 10. For me it brought back vivid memories of my 2010 visit to Nagasaki for the 65th Anniversary of the atomic bombing. Silence by Shusaku Endo is more than a literary masterpiece. Shūsaku Endō 遠藤 周作 Endō Shūsaku March 27 1923 September 29 1996 was a Japanese author who wrote from the rare perspective of a Japanese Roman CatholicTogether with Junnosuke Yoshiyuki Shōtarō Yasuoka Junzo Shono Hiroyuki Agawa Ayako Sono also Catholic and Shumon Miura Endō is categorized as part of the Third Generation that is the third major group of. Endo has won many literary awards. Up to 5 cash back Buy Scandal by Shusaku Endo online at Alibris. Endo sees the dark side of man as inherent to his being where good and evil reside simultaneously within mans soul. If this means that he is a Catholic novelist that his books are problematic and controversial that his writing is deeply psychological that he depicts the anguish of faith and the mercy of Godthen it is certainly true. At Tokyos Keio University he majored in French literature graduating BA in 1949 before furthering his studies in French Catholic literature at the University of Lyon in France between. The similarity to Endos other works ends there however and Scandal takes a no-holds-barred look at the depravity of the human heart and the urges that lie suppressed by the individual.