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After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima
$24.95 AUD
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
$27.00 AUD
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
$23.00 AUD
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
$26.00 AUD
Category: Classics
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
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima
$22.99 AUD
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, and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima
$30.00 AUD
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
Frolic of the Beasts The by Mishima Yukio
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Vintage International Ser.
After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled ...Show more
Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima; Michael Gallagher (translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Sea of Fertility 2
"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
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Sea of Fertility Ser.
"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
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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