Description
One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima’s masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide.
Reviews
"The violence we are facing with such difficulty in our daily lives, he gives us simply in all its subcutaneous horror and myth." — Hortense Calisher, The New York Times Book Review
"A direct yet lyrical style devoted entirely to bringing out the elevated emotions of its two characters." — Trevor Berrett, The Mookse and the Gripes
Also By: Yukio Mishima 
Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories
Paperback, 1966
Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a...
Confessions of a Mask
Paperback, 1958
The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.
Star
Paperback, 2019
For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker)
Winner of the...
Star
E Book, 2019
For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker)
Winner of the...