Death in Midsummer And Other Stories: Death in Midsummer; Three Million Yen; Thermos Flasks; the Priest of Shiga Temple And His Love; the Seven ... Onnagata; the Pearl; Swaddling Clothes - Softcover

The old world meets the new in this collection of fiction and drama. A husband prepares to commit hara-kiri in the name of patriotism, an ascetic struggles with temptation, and a businessman meets a past love in the streets of San Francisco.

Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of the 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 realising this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature three times.