(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780099282785
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 11th March 1999
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241441091
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241301197
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241678947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241630853
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan's greatest writers show the pull between duty and desire, ecstasy and death: a mother lost in mourning, a moonlit journey to fulfil a wish, a night of infidelity, a young lieutenant who ends his life.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780141189567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Depicts a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780099282891
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 11th March 1999
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor's rightful power.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780099282990
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 11th March 1999
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite.
Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780099284574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241675311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780099284796
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2000
UK Publication Date: 11th March 1999
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. They regard this disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9781784875428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'.
(Hardback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9781784879723
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780099289982
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2000
UK Publication Date: 11th March 1999
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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 sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780099282792
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 11th March 1999
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business, where he is granted an audience with a young Thai princess - an encounter that radically alters the course of his life.
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By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780099285670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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 famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780099530275
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2010
UK Publication Date: 10th December 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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 indifference, yet invigorated by her desire, she makes her move, with catastrophic consequences.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241723609
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback, 2nd New edition)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780720620122
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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Yukio Mishima's classic work, Confessions of a Mask, in a new and improved edition of the collectible Cased Classics series, which now features trompe-l'il die-cut dust jackets, and the work of British contemporary artist Fraser Taylor.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9781787702981
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
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A great, ancient art form, brought right up to date by one of Japan's foremost writers.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241333150
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241383476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241386705
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9781857151695
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1994
UK Publication Date: 1st September 1994
Publisher: Everyman
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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.
