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…

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates…

New in Penguin Japanese Classics- a gripping novel about a love affair gone wrong

Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century…

Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth-these characterize the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Napier discovers surprising…

In this masterpiece of the sexual Gothic, Yukio Mishima creates a portrait ofobsessive love and corrosive jealousy among a young widow, her father-in-law, and a domestic servant.

In this fascinating book, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types…

A Study Guide for Yukio Mishima’s The Sound of Waves, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker) Winner of…