Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima, translated by Stephen Dodd [in Shelf Awareness]
08 Apr, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
Two years after the original 1968 publication in Japan of Life for Sale, which opens immediately with a young man's failed attempt to die, Yukio Mishima (Star) led an unsuccessful military coup d'etat that ended with his highly publicized, gruesomely violent ritual suicide. Just 45...