{"product_id":"silence-9781250082244","title":"Silence","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShusaku Endo's \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times\u003c\/strong\u003e, now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilence\u003c\/i\u003e I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama. - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeventeenth-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 cruelties that test their own beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShusaku Endo is one of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers of the twentieth century, and \u003ci\u003eSilence\u003c\/i\u003e is widely considered to be his great masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ingram Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46871636115692,"sku":"9781250082244","price":51.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1737373482633.jpg?v=1759891457","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/silence-9781250082244","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}