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

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.