| After the Banquet Contributor(s): Mishima, Yukio (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375705155 ISBN-13: 9780375705151 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1999 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98041722 |
| Lexile Measure: 1090 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.22" W x 7.98" (0.58 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In After the Banquet, Mishima draws 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, Kazu decides to resurrect her husband's political career. 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. Kazu is the biggest and the most profound thing Mishima has done so far in an already distinguished career."--The New Yorker |