by Shusaku Endo · Tut Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9784805303764
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«Wonderful Fool» is the novel by Japanese writer Shusaku Endo, published in hardcover (237 pages, in English).
The young Frenchman Gaston Bonaparte presents himself to a Japanese family expecting French refinement and finds a lanky man who seems a fool. His overflowing love for people and animals and his capacity for sacrifice end up changing the family's perception, even challenging their moral apathy and reaching a hardened killer.
The novel was originally published in 1959 under the title «Obaka-san»; this English edition, translated by Francis Mathy, belongs to the Tuttle Classics collection.
For readers interested in Japanese literature and fiction classics, and for reading groups.
Shūsaku Endō was a Japanese author who wrote from the perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Internationally, he is known for his 1966 historical fiction novel Silence, which was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name by director Martin Scorsese. He was the laureate of several prestigious literary accolades, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Order of Culture, and was inducted into the Roman Catholic Order of St. Sylvester by Pope Paul VI.
