ORDERS

Readings Orders 0

DEMANDS

Readings Demands 0

The Frolic Of the Beasts (Penguin Modern Classics)
[Paperback - 2019]
On Demand
Availability in 2-4 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: Rs.1445 Rs.1228
Standard Discount: 15%
You Save: Rs.217
Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Classics
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics Uk | ISBN: 9780241386705 | Pages: 176
Shipping Weight: | Dimensions:

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 Beastsexplores 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

YUKIO MISHIMA was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944. He established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, The Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)—a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.

Also by the Same Author

View All

Bestsellers in Fiction

View All