Name: Forbidden Colors
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Author: Mishima, Yukio ; Marks, Alfred H.
ISBN: 9780375705168

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yukio Mishima

Translated by

Alfred H. Marks

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1999

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.5x2.3 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN

0375705163

ISBN13

9780375705168

Edition No.

Synopsis "Forbidden Colors "

From one of Japan's greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat and concealed passion, a work that distills beauty, longing, and loathing into an intoxicating tale. An aging, embittered novelist sets out to avenge himself on the women who have betrayed him. He finds the perfect instrument in Yuichi, a young man whose beauty makes him irresistible to women but who is just discovering his attraction to other men. As Yuichi's mentor presses him into a loveless marriage and a series of equally loveless philanderings, his protégé enters the gay underworld of postwar Japan where Yuichi is defenseless as any of the women he preys upon.

Yukio Mishima

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Yukio Mishima (literary name) was born as Kimitake Hiroaka in Tokyo in 1925 and committed suicide in 1970 in protest against the end of traditional Japan. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize, but it was after his death that he achieved international fame. Mishima lived, like so many Japanese of his generation, the clash of two cultural models: the Western and the ancient and own of Japan. A prolific and diverse writer, Confessions of a Mask, his first notable success, made him famous at just twenty-four years old.

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