| Wonderful Fool Contributor(s): Endo, Shusaku (Author), Mathy, Francis (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0720613205 ISBN-13: 9780720613209 Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2008 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.2" (0.50 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gaston Bonaparte, a young Frenchman, visits Tokyo to stay with his pen-pal Takamori. His appearance is a bitter disappointment to his new friends and his behavior causes them acute embarrassment. He is a trusting person with a simple love for others, and he continues to trust even after they have demonstrated deceit and betrayal. He spends his time not sightseeing but making friends with street children, stray dogs, prostitutes, and gangsters. This novel charts his misadventures with sharp irony, satire, and objectivity. |