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SPRING SNOW by YUKIO MISHIMA
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Sea of Fertility Ser.
A love story set in Tokyo in 1912, when the supremacy of the ancient aristocracy is being challenged for the first time by rich provincial families whose wealth make them formidable contenders for political power.
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Sea of Fertility Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial familes, a new and powerful political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. ...Show more
Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto's famous Gol ...Show more
The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima; Edward G Seidensticker (translator)
12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Sea of Fertility 4 | Reading Level: very good
The dramatic climax of "The Sea of Fertility" tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty ...Show more
The Frolic of the Beasts by Yukio Mishima
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- a gripping novel about a love affair gone wrong Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in a se ...Show more
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Yukio Mishima
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser.
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them ...Show more
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
36.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of a great Japanese classic, the tale of a group of young boys with a warped sense of masculinity. Lyrical, suspenseful and deeply ominous. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a br ...Show more
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. Wh ...Show more
The Temple Of Dawn by Yukio Mishima; E Dale Saunders (translator); Cecilia Segawa Seigle (translator)
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Sea of Fertility 3 | Reading Level: near fine
The story of a man called Honda's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful young Thai princess, and an equally passionate search for enlightenment that takes him to India. It dramatizes the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the postwar era. One of the "Sea of Fertility" cycle.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto's famous Gol ...Show more