Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of 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.
Yields a rare glimpse of the pulp-fiction flipside that partnered
the rhapsodic and mystical Mishima... grotesque, melodramatic,
spectacular, utterly silly
*The Times*
It's funny and horrific and curious and thoroughly entertaining and
should win Mishima a new generation of fans
*The Independent*
There is a place in life for the exhilarating, surreal and
sometimes downright silly. This novel ticks all the boxes
*Spectator*
Succeeds in capturing vividly the bathos of the self-pitying modern
nihilist... the absurdity of life is conveyed through the tropes of
pulp fiction and manga comics
*The New Statesman*
An engaging all-action satire
*The Guardian*
A writer of immense energy and ability
*Time Out*
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