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After the Banquet Paperback - 1999
by Yukio Mishima
With vast psychological acuity and an unblinking vision of the stratagems of marital warfare, the author tells of the shrewd but charming Kuzu who must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality.
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With vast psychological acuity and an unblinking insight into the nature of political and domestic warfare, Yukio Mishima creates a portrait of a marriage in which lofty principles clash fatally with appetite and ambition.With vast psychological acuity and an unblinking insight into the nature of political and domestic warfare, Yukio Mishima creates a portrait of a marriage in which lofty principles clash fatally with appetite and ambition. For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the middle-aged entrepreneur falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife.In time, however, the restless Kazu decides to resurrect her husband's political career. In doing so, she embarks on a series of compromises and evasions that will force her to choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. With its subtle ambiguities and its complex, vibrant heroine, After the Banquet is a magnificent novel.
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- Title After the Banquet
- Author Yukio Mishima
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage Inte
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-02-22
- ISBN 9780375705151 / 0375705155
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.22 x 0.67 in (20.27 x 13.26 x 1.70 cm)
- Reading level 1090
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- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Japan - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98041722
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Library Journal, 05/01/1999, Page 118
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