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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375705163

ISBN-139780375705168

eBay Product ID (ePID)141013

Product Key Features

Book TitleForbidden Colors

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1999

TopicCultural Heritage, Lgbt / Gay, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorYukio Mishima

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-041723

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"One of the outstanding writers of the world." -- The New York Times "An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of the world." -- The Atlantic

Dewey Decimal895.6/35

SynopsisFrom 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. * "One of the outstanding writers of the world." -- The New York Times 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., 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. - "One of the outstanding writers of the world." -- The New York Times 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., 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 prot g enters the gay underworld of postwar Japan where Yuichi is defenseless as any of the women he preys upon.

LC Classification NumberPL833.I7K5313 1999