The Frolic of the Beasts

Mishima was one of literature's great romantics, a tragedian with a heroic sensibility, an intellectual, an esthete, a man steeped in Western letters who toward the end of his life became a militant Japanese nationalist

New York Times

Mishima is the Japanese Hemingway

Life Magazine

A writer of immense energy and ability

Time Out

This morose little gem boasts its share of sensuous depravity

Wall Street Journal

A sexually and psychologically complex novel... in a honed translation by Andrew Clare

Damian Flanagan, TLS