Patriotism Av Yukio Mishima

For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is...

<p><b>A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary icon</b><br><br>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....

<p><b>''Interplanetary, quite extraordinary . . . awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty'' <i> Financial Times</i><br><br>''One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers...

<p>''There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain''<br><br>A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian...