Wonderful Fool - Softcover

Endo, Shusaku

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0720609798 ISBN 13: 9780720609790

Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers, 1995

Synopsis

Endo was runner-up for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. Here we meet the gentle, self-sacrificing French youth Gaston, whose 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. Endo's criticism of Japanese values and society is scathing.

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Review:

'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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0720609798
• ISBN 13: 9780720609790
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240