Shusaku Endo

Wonderful Fool

Übersetzer: Mathy, Francis

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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"Wonderful Fool is the story of Gaston Bonaparte, a young Frenchman who visits Tokyo to stay wth his pen-friend Takamori. Gaston is a trusting person whose simple love for others remains even after they have demonstrated deceipt and betrayal, but his appearance and his behaviour prove a bitter disappointment and embarrassment to Takamori and his associates, as Gaston spends his time making friends with street children, stray dogs, prostitutes and gangsters. Endo charts his misadventures with irony, satire and humanity."--Cover.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Owen Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 185mm x 123mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 173g
• ISBN-13: 9780720613209
• ISBN-10: 0720613205
• Artikelnr.: 24604216

Autorenporträt

Shusaku Endo is widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese authors of the late 20th century. He has won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. His novels, which have been translated into 28 languages, include Deep River, The Samurai, Scandal, The Sea and Poison, and Silence.