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‘The best book I’ve read this year … darkly comedic and full of tension and surprise’ Marina Abramovic ‘Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will cause no bother at all.’When Hanio Yamada realises the future holds little of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of unimaginable exploits. A world of murderous mobsters, hidden cameras, a vampire woman, poisoned carrots, code-breaking, a hopeless junkie heiress and makeshift explosives reveals itself to the unwitting hero. Is there nothing he can do to stop it? Resolving to follow the orders of his would-be purchasers, he comes to understand what life is worth, and whether we can indeed name our price.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.146 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.1 × 12.8 × 19.7 cm |
| Author(s) | |
| Format Old` | |
| Language | |
| Pages | 192 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2021-2-4 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0241333156 |
| About The Author | Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of Japan's most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests, besides writing, included body-building, acting and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realizing this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times. |
Yields a rare glimpse of the pulp-fiction flipside that partnered the rhapsodic and mystical Mishima… grotesque, melodramatic, spectacular, utterly silly |
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| Other text | It's funny and horrific and curious and thoroughly entertaining and should win Mishima a new generation of fans |
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