Yukio Mishima - Books and biography

A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary iconAll eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract...

Mishima’s literary powers are on full display in his penultimate novel, a meditation on reincarnation and Buddhist philosophy.Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal...

'The best book I've read this year ... darkly comedic and full of tension and surprise' Marina Abramovic 'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed....

The second book in Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetraology - this is a story of political violence, traditional samurai values and nihilism.Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in...

'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian...

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful elite.Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant...

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...

"Je propose une vie à vendre. À utiliser à votre guise. Homme, 27 ans. Confidentialité garantie. Aucune complication à craindre." Lorsque Hanio Yamada rate son suicide, il décide de mettre sa vie en...

For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness - then she falls in love.The man is one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, and she renounces...

Neste livro brilhante, Yukio Mishima conta a história de Mizoguchi, adolescente inseguro e introspectivo. Narrado de forma densa e original, o romance mostra que a beleza absoluta pode ser tão opressiva...

Etsuko is a trapped woman who lays traps for others... 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....

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Yukio Mishima. Dans cet essai introspectif mêlant souffrance, esthétisme et mort, l'auteur de Confession d'un masque nous livre une sorte de testament spirituel,...

This is Mishima's novel about the pressure of living an idealised life. It tells a fictionalised account of real events - the lonely acolyte who destroyed a famous Kyoto temple. Mizoguchi grows up a lonely...

La remor de les onades i El temple del pavelló daurat es van publicar per primera vegada a Amsterdam Llibres l’any 2011 i en commemoració del centenari del naixement de l’autor llancem noves edicions...

Inspirada en un fet real, la destrucció d'un bell temple budista de Kyoto per part d'un jove novici, El temple del pavelló daurat és l'aproximació psicològica del mestre Mishima a una obsessió irrefrenable....

'These stories are waves of fury, desire and delicious cruelty, always kissed by beauty and death' Mariana Enríquez A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary iconA...