num_pages: 237
description: Wonderful Fool is the story of Gaston Bonoparte, a young Frenchman who visits Tokyo to stay with his pen-friend Takamori. Gaston is a trusting person with a simple love for others even after they have demonstrated deceit 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.
language: English
title: Wonderful Fool
titlecomplete: Wonderful Fool
genres: Religion, Historical, Japanese Literature, School, Asian Literature, Literature, Japan, Classics, Fiction, Faith
ratings_count: 772
publisher: Peter Owen Ltd