About This Book
'Flawless' - David Mitchell 'A masterpiece' - Daily Telegraph Winner of the Tanizaki Prize Published in 1967 in Japan to huge controversy, Silence is Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed novel and a classic of its genre. Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in the 1640s, s...
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Reading Time Estimates
7h 38m
slow reader
180 WPM
5h 30m
average reader
250 WPM
3h 56m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 82,500 wordsπ
11 days at 30 min/day
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5 h 30 min
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Audiobook (1.5x)
6 h 7 min
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9 h 10 min
Audio 2x
4 h 35 min
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