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Death in Midsummer

By Yukio Mishima
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Ten tales of loss and longing, from one of Japan's greatest writers. Bringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection showcases his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. A moonlit journey to fulfil a wish; a mother lost... Read More
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Death in Midsummer

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Ten tales of loss and longing, from one of Japan's greatest writers.

Bringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection showcases his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. A moonlit journey to fulfil a wish; a mother lost in mourning; a night of infidelity; and a young lieutenant who ends his life. Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these hauntingly beautiful short stories from one of Japan's greatest writers illustrate the pull between duty and desire, ecstasy and death.

In the title story, Death in Midsummer, set at a beach resort, a triple tragedy becomes a cloud of doom that requires exorcising. In another, Patriotism, a young army officer and his wife choose a way of vindicating their belief in ancient values that is as violent as it is traditional; it prefigured his own death by seppuku in November 1970. There is a story in which the sad truth of the relationship between a businessman and his former mistress is revealed through a suggestion of the unknown, and another in which a working-class couple, touching in their simple love for each other, pursue financial security by rather shocking means.

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241678947

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 May 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 159g

Pages: 208

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Classics Yukio Mishima

About the Author

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.

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