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The Temple of Dawn
The third novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetralogy Mishima's literary powers are on full display in his penultimate novel, a meditation on reincarnation and Buddhist philosophy. Honda, a...
Forbidden Colours
A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys...
Death in Midsummer
Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writers Bringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection shows his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of...
Territory of Light
A powerfully tender portrait of a single mother in 1970s Tokyo. 'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble Territory of Light is the radiant story...
Runaway Horses
The second novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetraology The second book in Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetraology - this is a story of political violence, traditional samurai values...
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
'A major work of art' Time 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...
Forbidden Colours
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards slightly faded. Worn and yellowed DJ within mylar. Binding remains tight. Small glue residue...
Confessions of a Mask
The dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he imagines his body punctured with arrows,...
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea: Vintage Quarterbound
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classic. 'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times...
Beautiful Star
The novel Mishima considered to be one of his best works- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each of...
Thirst For Love
A masterwork of Japanese literary fiction, Thirst for Love chronicles the psychological unraveling of Etsuko, a young widow who moves into her late husband's family estate in rural Japan and...
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man
Three works of erotic prose fusing sex and spirituality, new to Penguin Modern Classics In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
A light revision of our definitive collection, translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The cliches...
The Bear and the Paving Stone
Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and war Visiting a friend in the French countryside, a man finds himself cast into the quandaries of historical...