Life for Sale

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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.

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Weight 0.146 kg
Dimensions 1.1 × 12.8 × 19.7 cm
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Format

Paperback

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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It's funny and horrific and curious and thoroughly entertaining and should win Mishima a new generation of fans

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