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After the Banquet
Yukio Mishima
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Description for After the Banquet
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 212.
For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness - then she falls in love.
The man is one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, and she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit. 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 and love in later life.
'An exquisitely paced high comedy at once characterized by humor and restraint...features a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099282785
SKU
V9780099282785
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About Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima was born into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete control over mind and body, and loyalty to the Emperor - the same code that produced the austerity and self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless stories and thirty-three plays, in some of which he performed. Several films have been made from his novels, including The ... Read more
Reviews 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
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