Death in Midsummer & Other Stories

Professor Yukio Mishima
New Directions Publishing Corporation
 9780811201179
0-8112-0117-1

Nine of Yukio Mishima's finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance..

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Often his characters are sophisticated modern Japanese who turn out to be not so liberated from the past as they had thought.