Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima - ISBN: 9780241630853
Hardcover
Duty, desire, and death intertwine in these evocative Japanese tales.

Death in Midsummer

$24.26

  • Hardcover

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    5 September 2023

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Summary

Little Clothbound Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

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.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241630853
ISBN-10:0241630851
Author:Yukio Mishima
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:5 September 2023
Weight:267g
Dimensions:167mm x 118mm x 24mm
Series:Little Clothbound Classics
About The Author

Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of Japan’s most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests, besides writing, included body-building, acting and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realizing this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times.

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