Published: 1 June 2001
ISBN: 9780099282785
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
RRP: $34.00

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After the Banquet

Yukio Mishima

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An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition

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 not so easy to renounce her independent spirit, and eventually Kazu must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. After the Banquet is a magnificent portrait of political and domestic warfare.

Published: 1 June 2001
ISBN: 9780099282785
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
RRP: $34.00

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Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of the Japan's most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests, besides writing, included body-building, acting and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realizing this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times.

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Praise for After the Banquet

Kazu is the biggest and most profound thing Mishima has done so far in an already distinguished career
New Yorker

His most novelistic work, with a degree of earthiness and warmth rare in his fiction
New York Times

Japan's foremost man of letters
Spectator

Direct yet allusive, poetic...an amazing feat
Atlantic