Death in midsummer
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Death in midsummer
9.99 €
The former lovers meet in San Francisco, far from their native Japan - what do they have in common but sad memories, and what does a thermos have to do with it? After a failed coup, an officer commits harakiri in front of his young wife. Four women on one night a year must cross seven bridges without saying a word to make their wishes come true - a simple task, but not all of them will make it to the end of the road. The family is trying to survive what is impossible to survive - the death of two children, fear for those left behind. A woman loses a pearl at her birthday party, and from such a trifle the configurations of friendship and enmity between old acquaintances change unrecognizably. Suddenly appearing in the shop of an antique dealer dancer disrupts his sale of an antique and very valuable cabinet - I wonder why she needs a cabinet...? Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) - the star of 20th century literature, the most widely read Japanese author in the world, the owner of a brilliant talent, famous both for his works of the widest range and variety of genres (novels, plays, short stories, essays), and stunning biography (obsession with bodybuilding, extreme right-wing political views, hara-kiri after an unsuccessful attempted monarchical coup). Mishima is an endlessly perceptive and ruthless observer, and his collection of short stories, Death in Midsummer, is an unpredictable and sometimes shocking kaleidoscope in which cruelty and passion, arrogance and vulnerability, fear and love, mental darkness and elusive light alternate.
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