Death in Midsummer
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Death in Midsummer
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Former lovers meet in San Francisco, far from their native Japan. What unites them, other than sad memories, and what does a thermos have to do with it? After a failed coup, an officer commits hara-kiri in front of his young wife. Four women, on one single night a year, must silently cross seven bridges to have their wishes fulfilled—a simple task, but not everyone will make it to the end. A family struggles to cope with the impossible: the death of two children and fear for those who remain. A woman loses a pearl on her birthday, and such a small change changes the friendship and enmity between longtime acquaintances beyond recognition. A dancer suddenly appears in an antique dealer's shop and ruins the sale of an antique and highly valuable cabinet—wonder what she wants it for? Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) was a star of 20th-century literature, the most widely read Japanese author in the world, a master of prodigious talent, renowned both for his works, which span a wide range and variety of genres (novels, plays, short stories, essays), and for his stunning biography (an obsession with bodybuilding, extreme right-wing political views, and hara-kiri after a failed coup attempt). Mishima was an infinitely perceptive and ruthless observer, and his collection of short stories, Death in Midsummer, is an unpredictable, sometimes shocking kaleidoscope in which cruelty and passion, arrogance and vulnerability, fear and love, spiritual darkness and elusive light alternate.
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