After The Banquet

Author: Yukio Mishima

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Price : 12.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780099282785
Publisher : Penguin Random House
Imprint : Penguin Books Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.24
Publication date : 01 March 1999
Dimensions : 197mm X 131mm X 18mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Yukio Mishima
Bind : Paperback
Edition : New edition
Pages : 288
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For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit, and eventually Kazu must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. After the Banquet is a magnificent portrait of political and domestic warfare.

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An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition