Seeking revenge on the women who betrayed him, Shunsuke, an aging misogynist, enlists the help of Yuichi, a young homosexual, whose experiences in the gay underworld vividly depict the corruption of postwar Tokyo. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.[...]

The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertilitySpring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when 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 formi[...]

Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.[...]

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 c[...]

Kikuchi, a lonely bookstore clerk, can't help buy wonder about Kajinoki, a regular customer of the shop. With each visit, he longs to see Kajinoki again and finds his heart starts to beat wildly in his presence. Is Kikuchi falling in love? And isn't Kajinoki married?[...]

The most internationally acclaimed Japanese author of the twentieth century, Yukio Mishima (1925-70) was a prime candidate for the Nobel Prize. But the prolific author shocked the world in 1970 when he attempted a coup d'etat that ended in his suicide by ritual disembowelment. In this radically new [...]

Generally regarded both in Japan and in the West as his most successful novel, THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION brings together all Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of his own nation. Based on actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple, the nov[...]

When Mishima committed ritual suicide in November 1970, he was only forty-five. He had written over thirty novels, eighteen plays, and twenty volumes of short stories. During his lifetime, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times and had seen almost all of his major novels appear in English.[...]

Sjömannen som föll i onåd hos havet är en av den kultförklarade japanske författaren Yukio Mishimas mest kompromisslösa och fängslande romaner. Det är ett psykologiskt laddat och stilistiskt fulländat verk som både oroar och engagerar.


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En annorlunda, poetisk essä om den japanske författaren Yukio Mishima. Lekfullt och associationsrikt i Roland Barthes’ anda låter Svenson sitt sinne för subtil estetik spela mot några av Mishimas viktigaste texter.[...]