The Wonderful Idiot - Shusaku Ando

The cover letter reads: “The novelist Shusaku Ando, in his novel, sets out to dive into the depths of the unique Japanese life after long suffering with tyranny, war and occupation. In asking questions of the post-war world, in which idiocy ranges between comedy and tragedy, and Ando rewrites Dostoevsky's idiocy in modern variations.

British novelist Graham Greene commented upon the novel's publication, "Ando, I see, is one of the best living novelists. His 'Magnificent Idiot' is a complete nonfiction guide to Tokyo and the Japanese experience."