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After The Banquet by Yukio Mishima
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit, and ...Show more
After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima
Category: Fiction
When the shrewd and charming Kazu falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her fashionable restaurant in order to become his wife. But soon she determines to hunch him back into office, with results that will force her to choose between her marriage and th ...Show more
Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Classics
The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs. The Osugi family have come to a realisation. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. Already seen as oddballs in their sm ...Show more
Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
Category: Fiction
'Interplanetary, quite extraordinary . . . awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty' Financial Times 'One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century' New Yorker Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be ...Show more
Confessions Of A Mask by Yukio Mishima
Category: Classic Fiction
Confessions of a Mask is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety. Christopher Isherwood comme ...Show more
Confessions of a Mask by Mishima Yukio. Meredith Weatherby (TRN)
Category: Fiction
Beautiful cased edition of this classic novel. Regarded as Yukio Mishima’s finest book, Confessions of a Mask is the story of a Japanese boy’s development towards a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War. In narrating his progress from an isolated childhood through adolescence to man ...Show more
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain. A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the obj ...Show more
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima; Meredith Weatherby (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Cased Classics Ser.
Confessions of a Mask tells the story of a Japanese boy's development towards a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War. In narrating his progress from an isolated childhood through adolescence to manhood, he exposes his inner life, full of repressed homosexual desires and preoccupatio ...Show more
Confessions of a Mask: A Novel Translated from the Japanese by Yukio Mishima
Category: Fiction
Long regarded as one of the most important novels to appear in post-war Japan, Confessions of a Mask is an allegory of a lonely boy’s yearning quest for belonging and his gradual acceptance of his homosexuality. With its overlay of intense sado-masochistic fantasy, the author draws deeply from the well ...Show more
Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima
Category: Fiction
Bringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection shows his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. A moonlit journey to fulfil a wish; a mother lost in mourning; a night of infidelity; and a young lieutenant who ends his life. Filled wit ...Show more
Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima
Category: Fiction
Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithFilled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan's greatest writers ...Show more
Death in Midsummer, and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima
Category: Fiction
Mishima's own selection of his best and most essential stories. Nine of Yukio Mishima's finest stories were personally selected by te Japanese writer himself; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict, with deftness and penetration, a wide variety of human beings during significant moments. ...Show more