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context: literature > modern
Shusaku Endo
Endo was a Catholic (around 1% of Japanese are Christian), and is regularly compared to Graham Greene (who was a big admirer). His work is full of illness and religious morality. Perhaps his best novel, Silence, was about a tortured Portugese missionary to Japan in the 17th Century.