num_pages: 186
description: Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan. Here nine of his finest stories, selected by Mishima himself, represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are modern Japanese who turn out to be not so liberated from the past as they had thought.Cover design by Tsutomu Harada
language: English
title: Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
genres: Asia, 20th Century, Short Stories, Japanese Literature, Literary Fiction, Asian Literature, Literature, Japan, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 4718
places: Japan
publisher: Penguin Books