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After The Banquet by Yukio Mishima
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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
Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
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
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Category: Classics
'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
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Category: Biography & Memoir
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 Yukio Mishima
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Category: 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: A Novel Translated from the Japanese by Yukio Mishima
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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
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Category: Classics
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 by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
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, and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima
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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
Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Written when Mishima was only twentysix, "Forbidden Colors" is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in "Mann's Death in Venice", the older man's longing for the beauty of you ...Show more
Frolic of the Beasts The by Mishima Yukio
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beaststells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, Koji; his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado; and Ippei's beautiful, enigmatic wife, Yuko. When brought fa ...Show more
Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima; Michael Gallagher (translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Sea of Fertility 2 | Reading Level: very good
"Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor's rightful power. As the conspiracy unfolds and unravel ...Show more