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Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain. A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the obj ...Show more
Confessions of a Mask by Mishima Yukio. Meredith Weatherby (TRN)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
Beautiful cased edition of this classic novel. Regarded as Yukio Mishima’s finest book, Confessions of a Mask is the story of a Japanese boy’s development towards a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War. In narrating his progress from an isolated childhood through adolescence to man ...Show more
Confessions of a Mask: A Novel Translated from the Japanese by Yukio Mishima
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
Long regarded as one of the most important novels to appear in post-war Japan, Confessions of a Mask is an allegory of a lonely boy’s yearning quest for belonging and his gradual acceptance of his homosexuality. With its overlay of intense sado-masochistic fantasy, the author draws deeply from the well ...Show more
Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima
$32.95 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
Seeking revenge on the women who betrayed him, Shunsuke, an aging misogynist, enlists the help of Yuichi, a young homosexual, whose experiences in the gay underworld vividly depict the corruption of postwar Tokyo. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima
$33.00 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled ...Show more
Star by Yukio Mishima
$7.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary icon All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention. They would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the c ...Show more
The Frolic of the Beasts by Yukio Mishima
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- a gripping novel about a love affair gone wrong Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in a se ...Show more
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Yukio Mishima
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser.
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them ...Show more
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
$12.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. Wh ...Show more
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