The Frolic of the Beasts
Mishima, Yukio Translated into English for the first time, a gripping short novel about an affair gone wrong, from the acclaimed Japanese author, Yukio Mishima. Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beasts tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, Koji, his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado, and Ippei's beautiful, enigmatic wife, Yuko. When brough...