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After the Banquet

Yukio Mishima

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Japanese
Vintage
01 June 2001
Mishima's 1960 novel is a portrait of love and marriage in later life and features his best female character - the irrepressible Kazu.

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 her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit. Eventually Kazu must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. After the Banquet is a magnificent portrait of political and domestic warfare and love in later life.

'An exquisitely paced high comedy at once characterized by humor and restraint...features a magnificently ebullient heroine as she embarks upon one more adventure in love' Kirkus

' Mishima's

most novelistic work, with a degree of earthiness and warmth rare in his fiction' New York Times
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   205g
ISBN:   9780099282785
ISBN 10:   009928278X
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for After the Banquet

Kazu is the biggest and most profound thing Mishima has done so far in an already distinguished career * New Yorker * His most novelistic work, with a degree of earthiness and warmth rare in his fiction * New York Times * Japan's foremost man of letters * Spectator * Direct yet allusive, poetic...an amazing feat * Atlantic *


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