In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none...

Yukio Mishima's The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in...

Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the...

Sexual torment, jealousy, and impossible-to-resolve longing, Mishima's Thirst for Love is a portrait of the corrosive power of frustrated desire. The protaganist is Etsuko, a young widow whose philandering husband died horribly from...

Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the...

After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances. But soon she finds herself in love with the young servant Saburo. Tormented by his...

'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will cause no bother at all.'When Hanio Yamada realises the future holds little of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo...

"The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" ist ein Roman von Yukio Mishima, der auf einer wahren Geschichte basiert. Er erzählt die Geschichte eines jungen buddhistischen Mönchs namens Mizoguchi, der an Stottern leidet und sich sozial isoliert...

Irresistible to women, the beautiful, young Yuichi embarks on a loveless marriage while he enters a homosexual underworld during postwar Japan. von Mishima, Yukio

"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...

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...

"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...