While visiting a middle-class Japanese family, Gaston Bonaparte attempts to apply Christian charity to the downtrodden of Tokyo

Wonderful Fool (English and Japanese Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Shūsaku Endō

Classics

Harper&Row

Representing the best of his short fiction between 1959 and 1977, these share many of the themes that are familiar to Endo's novels: the struggle to maintain Christian faith in a Japanese context, the spiritual doubt that lies beneath the surface of everyday life.

Stained Glass Elegies (King Penguin S.)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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.

Wonderful Fool

Contemporary

Foreign studies

Endo's books, which include "Silence" and "Scandal", have been published in 25 countries and won several major awards. The three thematically linked narratives in this novel all involve Japanese scholars, who journey to France in the 1950s and 1960s and 17th century Rome, respectively.

Foreign Studies

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

When I Whistle

Sceptre

Stained Glass Elegies

A Remakable collection of stories by Japanese author,.

Dodd, Mead, & Company

Suguro, a respected and famous Catholic writer, finds his life scandalized by accusations that he frequents the red-light district, and he soon discovers an imposter who forces him to question his own moral character

Scandal (English and Japanese Edition)

Literary

Dodd, Mead

Startled by a chance meeting, Ozu, a middle-aged businessman, is reminded of the uncomplicated times before the war, while his son Eichi, a surgeon, conspires to gain power at the large hospital where he works

Quartet Books

The novel The Sea and Poison won the Akutagawa Prize when it was published in Japan in 1958 and established Shusaku Endo in the forefront of modern Japanese literature.The Sea and Poison was the first Japanese book to confront the problem of individual responsibility in wartime, painting a searing picture of the human race’s capacity for inhumanity. At the outset of this powerful story we find a Doctor Suguro in a backwater of modern-day Tokyo practicing expert medicine in a dingy office. He is haunted by his past experience and it is that past which the novel unfolds. During the war Dr. Suguro serves his internship in a hospital where the senior staff is more interested in personal career-building than in healing. He is induced to assist in a horrifying vivisection of a POW. "What is it that gets you," one of his colleagues asks. "Killing that prisoner? The conscience of man, is that it?"

The Sea and Poison (Unesco Collection of Contemporary Works)

Owen

One of Endo's most unusual and powerful novels is set largely in a modern hospital, with themes and scenes that eerily seem to predate "Never Let Me Go" A jaded businessman has a chance encounter with the doctor son of his best friend at school, Ozu, and memories are stirred of a former love interest of Ozu's, Aiko. The son of his friend proves to be contemptuous of the outmoded values of his father's world and ruthless in pursuit of success at his hospital. The story reaches a terrible climax when Aiko, now a middle-aged cancer-sufferer, is admitted to the hospital and Ozu leads the way in experimenting on her with dangerous drugs.

Owen, Peter Publishing

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Wonderful Fool (English and Japanese Edition)

Stained Glass Elegies (King Penguin S.)

Wonderful Fool

Foreign Studies

When I Whistle

Stained Glass Elegies

Scandal (English and Japanese Edition)

When I Whistle

The Sea and Poison (Unesco Collection of Contemporary Works)

When I Whistle