For the first time in English, a glittering novella about
stardom and disillusionment, from 'one of the greatest avant-garde
Japanese writers of the twentieth century'
Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of the Japan's most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests, besides writing, included body-building, acting and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realizing this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature three times.
A stunning addition to the oeuvre of one of postwar Japan's
greatest storytellers
*Wall Street Journal*
Mishima's novels exude a monstrous and compulsive weirdness, and
seem to take place in a kind of purgatory for the depraved
*Angela Carter*
Mishima was one of literature's great romantics, a tragedian with a
heroic sensibility, an intellectual, an esthete, a man steeped in
Western letters who toward the end of his life became a militant
Japanese nationalist
*New York Times*
Mishima is the Japanese Hemingway
*Life Magazine*
A writer of immense energy and ability
*Time Out*
A startlingly modern, hypervisual jewel; it could be a really
interesting movie. It was mesmerizing, seeming to fall in my hands
from an alternative sky.
*Patti Smith*
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