After the banquet
Mishima, Yukio, 1925-19702001
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An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit, and eventually Kazu must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. After the Banquet is a magnificent portrait of political and domestic warfare.
Main title:
After the banquet / Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene.
Author:
Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970, authorKeene, Donald, translator
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Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, 2001.©1991.
Collation:
270 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
First published in Japan: 1960, as Utage no ato.Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9780099282785 (paperback)
Dewey class:
895.635F
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
224649