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Here we meet the gentle, self-sacrificing French youth, Gaston Bonaparte, a descendent of Napoleon. His trusting love of both people and animals makes all who meet him change their lives for the better. Gaston's adventures in modern Japan are presented as a kind of fable, yet, with complete realism and keen social satire. A Peter Owen Modern Classics.
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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
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'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
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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- PublisherPeter Owen Publishers
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0720604923
- ISBN 13 9780720604924
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages238
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