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Availability:In StockContributor:Yukio MishimaPublish date:1999-02-22Pages:208
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375705076ISBN-10:375705074UPC:9780375705076Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:7.98 x 5.22 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SCF2DHEHK0
Full of sexual torment, jealousy, and impossible-to-resolve longing, this novel from "one of the outstanding writers of the world" (The New York Times) presents a riveting portrait of the corrosive power of frustrated desire.

The protaganist is Etsuko, a young widow whose philandering husband died horribly from typhoid. After moving into the house of her father-in-law, her misery deepens as she numbly submits to the old man's advances. But soon Etsuko falls in love with the young servant, Saburo. Tormented by his indifference yet invigorated by her anguish, she makes one last, catastrophic, bid for his attentions.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375705076ISBN-10:375705074UPC:9780375705076Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:7.98 x 5.22 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SCF2DHEHK0
YUKIO MISHIMA was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University's School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944. He established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, The Sea of Fertility tetralogy--which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)--is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)--a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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