Wonderful Fool (Penguin International Writers S.) - Softcover

Endo, Shusaku

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9780140110487: Wonderful Fool (Penguin International Writers S.)

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ISBN 10: 0140110488 ISBN 13: 9780140110487

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

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In this book, Gaston Bonaparte, ironically a descendant of Napoleon, arrives in Tokyo as the guest of a typically middle-class, materialistic Japanese family. Gas, however, is irresistibly drawn to victims, to the downtrodden in Japanese society and he nourishes them with compassion.

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'Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists.' -- Graham Greene

'The Japanese writer who appeals most to an audience outside Japan. Everything I have read of Endo's is memorable. He never disappoints.' -- Anthony Thwaites

About the Author:

Known as the 'Japanese Graham Greene' Shusaku Endo was born in Tokyo in 1923. Widely regarded as the most distinguished of contemporary Japanese writers he won many major literary prizes during his lifetime. His books, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, include Silence, The Sea and Poison, Deep River, Scandal and The Samurai. Short-listed for the Nobel Prize on several occasions, he was elected to the Nihon Geijutsuin, the Japanese Arts Academy in 1981 and was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.

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