Description
| Product ID: | 9780241675311 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Japanese Classics |
| Title: | The Frolic of the Beasts |
| Authors: | Author: Yukio Mishima, Andrew Clare |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation, Japan, c 1945 to c 1960 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writersKoji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly in love with the beautiful, enigmatic Yuko. But she is married to the literary critic and serial philanderer Ippei. Tormented by desire and anger, Koji is driven to an act of violence that will bind this strange, terrible love triangle together for the rest of their lives. A starkly compelling story of lust, guilt and punishment, The Frolic of the Beasts explores the masks we wear in life, and what happens when they slip. 'One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century' New Yorker The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan''s greatest twentieth-century writers |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-11-02 |
