| Title:
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THIRST FOR LOVE
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| By: |
Yukio Mishima, Alfred H. Marks (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£6.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0140181628 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780140181623 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
29 June, 1989 |
| Series: |
Twentieth Century Classics S. |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Translated from: |
Japanese |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
After her philandering husband dies from typhoid, the young widow Etsuko moves into the household of her father-in-law, where she numbly bears the old man's sexual advances. Soon she falls in love with the servant Saburo. Tormented by his indifference yet invigorated by her anguish, Etsuko makes one last, catastrophic bid for his attention. Stunningly acute in its perceptions, excruciating in its psychological suspense, Thirst for Love is a triumph of eroticism, terror, and compassion. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |