Books by Yukio Mishima
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Silk and Insight
This is a tale based on the strike which took place in the mid-1950s at Omi Kenshi, a silk manufacturer not far from Tokyo. The events described reflect the management / labour tensions of the period and is a piece of social... See More
Kinkakuji (Yukio Mishima) : The Temple of The Golden Pavilion
"The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" - Prologue - On July 2, 1950, the shocking news startled the public eyes and ears that national treasure "Kinkaku-ji" was destroyed by setting it afire and the arson was the young monk... See More
The Frolic of the Beasts (Vintage International)
Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, this gripping novel tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle that leads to psychological self-entrapment, seduction, and murder. ? "A compelling tale of... See More
Life for Sale (Vintage International)
"A propulsive, madcap story" (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. ? "An outstanding writer not only... See More
The Decay of the Angel: The Sea of Fertility, 4 (Vintage International)
Yukio Mishima's The Decay of the Angel is the final novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. It is the last installment of Shigekuni Honda's pursuit of the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend... See More
The Temple of Dawn: The Sea of Fertility, 3 (Vintage International)
The third novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, in which a brilliant lawyer will go to nearly any length to discover whether a young Thai princess is in fact the reincarnated spirit of his childhood friend... See More
Runaway Horses: The Sea of Fertility, 2 (Vintage International)
The second novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility -- and "a modern masterpiece" (The Baltimore Sun) -- narrated by a judge in Osaka who believes he has met the successive reincarnation of his childhood friend... See More
Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu): A Novel
Published in 1964, Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu), is one of the last major novels of Yukio Mishima to be translated into English. Besides being a good novel, as one would expect from Mishima, it stands as an excellent... See More
The Sound of Waves (Vintage International)
A timeless story of first love set in a remote fishing village in Japan. ? "A story that is both happy and a work of art... Altogether a joyous and lovely thing." -- The New York Times A young fisherman is entranced at the... See More
Spring Snow: The Sea of Fertility, 1 (Vintage International)
"A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive... See More
Sun and Steel
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... See More