Shusaku Endo has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 25 ratings. The most-rated is Silence.

4 audiobooks
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Silence

20 ratings

Summary

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.

©1966 Shusaku Endo (P)2009 Audible Ltd

Narrator: David Holt
Author: Shusaku Endo
Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
Available on Audible
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The Samurai

4 ratings

Summary

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.

©1980 Shusaku Endo (P)2009 Audible Ltd

Narrator: David Holt
Author: Shusaku Endo
Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
Available on Audible
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Deep River

1 rating

Summary

The story traces the journey of four Japanese tourists on tour in India. Each goes to India for different purposes and with different expectations. Set against the backdrop of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination, each traveler finds his or her own spiritual discovery on the banks of the Ganges River.

©1993 Shusaku Endo (P)2009 Audible Ltd

Narrator: David Holt
Author: Shusaku Endo
Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
Available on Audible
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Silence

Summary

"Silence" (dt. Schweigen) ist der wichtigste Roman des gefeierten japanischen Autors Shusaku Endo. Er verursachte nach seiner Veröffentlichung im Jahr 1966 eine große Kontroverse in Japan. Shusaku Endo, ein japanischer Katholik, erzählt die Geschichte zweier portugiesischer Missionare, die im siebzehnten Jahrhundert in Japan versuchen, die dortige unterdrückte christliche Bewegung zu unterstützen. 1638 bricht Pater Sebastião Rodrigues nach Japan auf, um der Wahrheit hinter den undenkbaren Gerüchten, dass sein berühmter Lehrer Ferreira seinem Glauben abgeschworen habe, nachzugehen. Nach seiner Ankunft erlebt er die brutale und unmenschliche Verfolgung der Christen. Angesichts der Ereignisse in einer Gesellschaft, die keine Toleranz kennt und in der der Tod an der Tagesordung ist, stellt der Autor die immerwährende Frage: Wie kann Gott zu all dem schweigen?

©1969 / 2015 / 2017 Monumenta Nipponica / Septime Verlag / Finch&Zebra / Shusaku Endo. Übersetzung von Ruth Linhart (P)2017 Finch & Zebra, Buss & Thielen GbR

Narrator: Benno Fürmann
Author: Shusaku Endo
Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
Available on Audible