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Shusaku Endo – Silence – First UK Edition 1976
£175.00
First UK edition, first printing. Published by Peter Owen in London, 1976. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper, featuring the frontal Graham Greene review. There is a major stain on the rear panel, at the bottom of the spine and at the front panel. This casts this copy down from very near fine condition. There is slight edge wear present. It has not been price clipped. The boards are free from notable chips and marks, and are pristine in the black publisher’s cloth. The text blocks are bright and white throughout, though so slightly foxed on the top edge. Overall, this is a very good (or better) copy.
One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, a meditation on faith and suffering. The lead character’s inability to reconcile the imagined glory of martyrdom with the grotesque reality is especially affecting. Frequently compared to Greene’s The Power and the Glory; its genius is of a similar magnitude, but it is a truly unique novel. Ivor Kaplan’s dustjacket shows an isolated, crucified Christ.
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First UK edition, first printing. Published by Peter Owen in London, 1976. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper, featuring the frontal Graham Greene review. There is a major stain on the rear panel, at the bottom of the spine and at the front panel. This casts this copy down from very near fine condition. There is slight edge wear present. It has not been price clipped. The boards are free from notable chips and marks, and are pristine in the black publisher’s cloth. The text blocks are bright and white throughout, though so slightly foxed on the top edge. Overall, this is a very good (or better) copy.
One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, a meditation on faith and suffering. The lead character’s inability to reconcile the imagined glory of martyrdom with the grotesque reality is especially affecting. Frequently compared to Greene’s The Power and the Glory; its genius is of a similar magnitude, but it is a truly unique novel. Ivor Kaplan’s dustjacket shows an isolated, crucified Christ.
