Frolic of the Beasts (Penguin Modern Classics)

By (author) : Yukio Mishima
Translated by : Andrew Clare
Publishers: Penguin Books Ltd
Print Format: Paperback

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The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers

Koji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly in love with the beautiful,enigmatic Yuko. But she is married to the literary critic and serialphilanderer Ippei. Tormented by desire and anger, Koji is driven to anact of violence that will bind this strange, terrible love triangletogether for the rest of their lives. A starkly compelling story oflust, guilt and punishment, The Frolic of the Beasts explores the masks we wear in life, and what happens when they slip.

'One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century' New Yorker

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A sexually and psychologically complex novel... in a honed translation by Andrew Clare

Title	Frolic of the Beasts (Penguin Modern Classics)
By (author)	Yukio Mishima
Translated by	Andrew Clare
Publishers	Penguin Books Ltd
Language of text	English
Original language of a translated text	Japanese
ISBN	9780241386705
Product Form	Paperback
Height	198 mm
Width	129 mm
Thickness	9 mm
Unit weight	134 gr