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Silence by Shūsaku Endō

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Silence (1966) is Shūsaku Endō’s masterpiece, a novel set in 17th Japan, following two Portuguese Jesuits posted there to search for their former teacher, who is feared to have abandoned his faith. Joining John and Andy to discuss this intense and powerful exploration of religious belief and its limits is the novelist Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent, Melmoth and, most recently, Essex Girls. Also in this episode John enjoys The Appointment, a mordantly funny debut novel by literary agent, Katharina Volckmer and Andy wallows in the profound comedic achievement that is From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)9'30 - The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer16'06 - Alan Partridge Podcast 21'18 Silence by Shūsaku Endō* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I bet you, Andy Miller, 100 English pounds that you will never see me on Twitter again.

0:25.8

I accept that bet, and I am here as witness, but he can't ever be asked to pay up because

0:32.1

never again means until the end of my time, one time, generally, that's why I'm happy

0:37.2

to accept which ever comes first, yeah, all the end of Twitter, which I come first.

0:43.5

Yeah, let's hope, yeah, that would be 2020's final twist, wouldn't it?

0:48.4

I have been amused today that people have been looking at that, you know, steroids tend

0:53.2

to make you quite hyper, hyper manic, and Trump's tweets have gone, they have shifted

0:58.0

up a couple of levels, they're all in caps now, every single one of them.

1:02.0

Really?

1:03.0

It's that don't, Sarah, you don't need to know, that's something you really don't need to know.

1:07.7

But he does seem to have turned into his own bot, he's just spamming out.

1:12.2

He's actually, he's literally, he's trolling himself now.

1:15.7

Yeah.

1:16.7

Ah, this is so nice, this is so, we're so pleased that you, you could do this.

1:21.8

Sarah, where are you?

1:23.6

I am in my study in Norwich.

1:26.8

Ah, Norwich, we may talk about Norwich shortly, I don't, I don't want to give too much for you.

1:31.4

You're living in exile from Essex, is that, is that, is that, are you like sort of joys

1:35.6

writing about Dublin from, from Trieste?

1:38.5

Someone asked me about this recently and I genuinely feel best equipped to write about Essex,

1:43.8

which I'm doing again, when I'm not there.

1:45.7

Yeah.

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