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The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

2010-01-26 Fiction
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Release : 2010-01-26
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 112/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by : Yukio Mishima

Download or read book The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea written by Yukio Mishima. This book was released on 2010-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of youth and warped masculinity, this is the suspenseful, lyrical and page-turning Japanese classic. A band of thirteen-year-old boys reject the stupidity of the adult world. They decide it is illusory, hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call ‘objectivity’. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship’s officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first, but it is not long before they conclude that he is, in fact, soft and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part – and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying. ‘A page turning novel... A timeless classic’ Independent ‘Mishima’s greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century’ The Times TRANSLATED BY JOHN NATHAN

Star

2019-04-30 Fiction
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Release : 2019-04-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 436/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Star by : Yukio Mishima

Download or read book Star written by Yukio Mishima. This book was released on 2019-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker) All eyes are on Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells “action”; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions. Being a star, constantly performing, being watched and scrutinized as if under a microscope, is often a drag. But so is life. Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film “Afraid to Die,” this novella is a rich and unflinching psychological portrait of a celebrity coming apart at the seams. With exquisite, vivid prose, Star begs the question: is there any escape from how we are seen by others?

Persona

2013-01-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2013-01-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 087/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Persona by : Naoki Inose

Download or read book Persona written by Naoki Inose. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the Japanese author who went from sickly youth to dedicated student of the martial arts, looking at his family life, the wartime years, and his career as a writer who advocated for traditional values.

Life for Sale

2020-04-14 Fiction
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Release : 2020-04-14
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 159/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Life for Sale by : Yukio Mishima

Download or read book Life for Sale written by Yukio Mishima. This book was released on 2020-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 heiress, poisoned carrots—even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the cross hairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate. By turns wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and deeply surreal, in Life for Sale Yukio Mishima stunningly uses satire to explore the same dark themes that preoccupied him throughout his lifetime.

Spring Snow

2013-04-09 Fiction
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Release : 2013-04-09
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 31X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Spring Snow by : Yukio Mishima

Download or read book Spring Snow written by Yukio Mishima. This book was released on 2013-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders—rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki’s true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion—and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.

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