Voices Of The Fallen Heroes

Name: Voices Of The Fallen Heroes
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd

Penguin Books Ltd

Voices of the Fallen HeroesAnd Other Stories\nAuthor(s): Yukio Mishima, Stephen Dodd, Jeffrey Angles, Tomoko Aoyama, Stephen Dodd, Paul McCarthy, John Nathan, Hannah Osborne, Juliet Winters Carpenter, Oliver White\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Penguin Classics\nISBN-13: 9780241723609, 978-0241723609\nSynopsis\n'These stories are waves of fury, desire and delicious cruelty, always kissed by beauty and death' Mariana Enrquez\n\nA new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary icon\n\nA writer is seized by apocalyptic visions; a voyeuristic marquis commits a brutal act; and a trio of beatniks dance to modern jazz in the ruins of an abandoned church. Here, stark autobiography contrasts with pure horror, and the tenderness of first love cedes to obsession, heartbreak and deathly beauty. A new selection of Mishimas short stories from the 1960s, Voices of the Fallen Heroes traces the final decade of Mishimas career an.