"Thought-provoking and moving... Complex and multilayered... [Silence] is a great achievement, and I love the book." - David Mitchell, author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas
"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama." - The New York Review of Books
"One of the best historical novels by anyone, ever." --David Mitchell (from an interview on Foyles.com)
"Somber, delicate, and startlingly empathetic." --John Updike (from Endo's New York Times obituary)
"Endo has been repeatedly, tiresomely, compared to Graham Greene, who warmly praised [Silence]. . . . But Greene's fascination with sin and guilt looks very tame when put beside Endo's." --Gary Wills, The New York Review of Books
"A masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama about a Portuguese missionary tormented by Japanese inquisitors." --Irving Howe, The New York Review of Books
"Endo's disarmingly direct and poignant narration masks a complex moral discussion." --Robert Coles, New Oxford Review
"Endo's grandest novel." --Robert Winder, Independent (London)
"Endo succeeds in creating a vision of Christian faith obstinate enough to endure even in soils that have never been fertile for its growth." --The CS Lewis Review
"At the height of his powers, the author produced two historical masterworks, [including] Silence." --Crisis Magazine
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