The Temple of Dawn (The sea of fertility)
 A weaker link in Mishima's tetralogy: This was, for me, the weakest of the three Sea of Fertility novels I have read. One problem has been commented on by almost every reviewer: the theme of the overall work is reincarnation. But traditional Buddhist [... more]
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Nieve de primavera. El mar de la fertilidad, 1 ...
Author: Mishima Author: Yukio Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9788420661407 Edition: Tra ISBN: 8420661406 Number Of Pages: 472 Publication Date: 2006-01-01 [... more]
$21.29
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After the Banquet
A great book about love, politics and money in 1960s Japan: Kazu is a middle-aged woman and the proprietress of a successful restaurant -- the Setsugoan -- in Tokyo. During a banquet for the Kagen Club, she meets and falls in love with Yuken Noguchi, a [... more]
$14.95
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Acts of Worship: Seven Stories (Japanese for Busy People)
A Mixed Collection of Writing: Contrary to what the translator claims in the introduction, based on this collection of short stories, Mishima Yukio's work as a novelist far exceeds in quality that of the short story writer. While some stories are quite [... more]
$17.00
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The Decay of the Angel (No 4)
Staggering: I must admit, I didn't really like this book that much at first. I felt as if Mishima's depiction of Toru (the 'incarnation' this time around), with all the hyper-intelligent, will-to-power stuff, was teetering on the brink of self-parody, [... more]
$13.95
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Sun and Steel
Props to Mishima, a philosopher who walked his talk: This book is a literary type that was once common in Japan, the self-obsessive partial memoir. But Mishima's style, tone, and content are absolutely unique. He writes about the relation between world [... more]
$15.00
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The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
Strange, Disconcerting, Beautifully Written: If nothing else, Mishima writes brilliantly and his subject matter is not boring. This novels covers the rather unhealthy relationship between an adolescent boy, his attractive mother and a sailor who becomes [... more]
$13.95
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Acts of Worship: Seven Stories (Japan's Modern Writers)
A Mixed Collection of Writing: Contrary to what the translator claims in the introduction, based on this collection of short stories, Mishima Yukio's work as a novelist far exceeds in quality that of the short story writer. While some stories are quite [... more]
$12.95
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Everyman's Library ...
Literature that rightfully make us proud to be Japanese: If ever criticized, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima is chided most frequently for some of its seemingly mundane, superfluous and repetitive details and paragraphs. Many give up, [... more]
$19.00
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Literature that rightfully make us proud to be Japanese: If ever criticized, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima is chided most frequently for some of its seemingly mundane, superfluous and repetitive details and paragraphs. Many give up, [... more]
$14.00
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RUNAWAY HORSES (His the Sea of Fertility 2)
Continues the themes of SPRING SNOW with expanded form and new perspectives: In RUNAWAY HORSES, the second volume of Yukio Mishima's "Sea of Fertility" tetralogy, we are presented with a remarkable turn of events. Kiyoaki Matsugae, the tragic [... more]
$13.95
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Silk and Insight (Studies of the Pacific Basin Institute)
Amazon.com Review: A labor strike in a Japanese silk factory may not seem like a promising premise for a novel, but Yukio Mishima manages to turn an historical event into a fictional exploration of Japan's old paternalistic system of labor management. [... more]
$25.95
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