Forbidden Colors

by YUKIO MISHIMA

2021-01-01 12:37:12

From one of Japan''s greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat and concealed passion, a work that distills beauty, longing, and loathing into an intoxicating tale.   An aging, embittered novelist sets out to... Read more
From one of Japan''s greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat and concealed passion, a work that distills beauty, longing, and loathing into an intoxicating tale.
 
An aging, embittered novelist sets out to avenge himself on the women who have betrayed him. He finds the perfect instrument in Yuichi, a young man whose beauty makes him irresistible to women but who is just discovering his attraction to other men. As Yuichi''s mentor presses him into a loveless marriage and a series of equally loveless philanderings, his protégé enters the gay underworld of postwar Japan where Yuichi is defenseless as any of the women he preys upon. Less

Book Details

File size8 X 5.2 X 0.9 in
Print pages416
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date February 22, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780399504907
Yukio Mishima (Jan 14, 1925 – Nov 25, 1970) was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai , an unarmed civilian militia. He was consider...

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