Silence and Beauty Author Serves as Consultant on Long-Awaited Martin Scorsese Film Contact | Krista Clayton | 630.734.4013 | kclayton@ivpress.com WESTMONT, IL—When IVP author Makoto Fujimura was weighing whether to write a book inspired by Shusaku Endo’s 1966 classic novel Silence, a friend introduced him to Martin Scorsese, who had been considering a film about the same book for nearly thirty years. That conversation with Scorsese led Fujimura to move ahead with writing his book and to become a consultant for Scorsese’s Silence, which is set…