Translated into English for the first time, a gripping short novel about an affair gone wrong, from the acclaimed Japanese author, Yukio Mishima. Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beasts tells the story of...

"The Sound of Waves" ist ein Roman des japanischen Autors Yukio Mishima, der erstmals 1954 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte spielt auf der abgelegenen Insel Uta-jima und erzählt von der jungen Liebe zwischen Shinji Kubo, einem...

"Runaway Horses" ist der zweite Band in Yukio Mishimas Tetralogie "The Sea of Fertility". Das Buch setzt die Erkundung von Themen wie Idealismus, Nationalismus und Vergänglichkeit fort. Die Geschichte spielt in Japan in den frühen 1930er...

"Leben zu verkaufen" von Yukio Mishima ist ein Roman, der die Geschichte von Hanio Yamada erzählt, einem jungen Mann in Tokio, der nach einem gescheiterten Selbstmordversuch beschließt, sein Leben zum Verkauf anzubieten. In einer...

Yukio Mishima was born into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete control over mind and body, and loyalty to the Emperor - the same code that produced the austerity and self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless stories...

"Geständnis einer Maske" ist ein semi-autobiografischer Roman des japanischen Autors Yukio Mishima, der 1949 veröffentlicht wurde. Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte von Kochan, einem jungen Mann, der in Japan während der Vorkriegs- und...

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...

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a...

Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow is the first novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here we meet Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his friend, Kiyoaki...

The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writersKoji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly in love with the beautiful, enigmatic Yuko. But she is married to the literary critic...

Life for Sale von Mishima, Yukio

Nine of Yukio Mishima's finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are...