PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of the 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.
This morose little gem boasts its share of sensuous depravity * Wall Street Journal * Mishima was one of literature's great romantics, a tragedian with a heroic sensibility, an intellectual, an esthete, a man steeped in Western letters who toward the end of his life became a militant Japanese nationalist * New York Times * Mishima is the Japanese Hemingway * Life Magazine * A writer of immense energy and ability * Time Out * A sexually and psychologically complex novel... in a honed translation by Andrew Clare * TLS *
