After the Banquet, (Paperback)

from slickdpdx

Mishima makes the mid-life crisis and self-discovery of a fifty year old woman a compelling read for me, a younger man. Brief because Mishima's writing is so economical and effective. While I liked...

from ExplodingSuns

What a book--talk about writing relationships that feel realer than life itself! Mishima is a master--Kazu at once represents the modern of the Japanese woman, and the success all women can attain:...

from ExplodingSuns

What a book--talk about writing relationships that feel realer than life itself! Mishima is a master--Kazu at once represents the modern of the Japanese woman, and the success all women can attain:...

from JolleyG

On reading this novel, one wonders what attracts the two characters - Noguchi, a traditional and very straight-laced man, and Kazu, a self-made and life-loving woman - to each other. Clearly Noguch...

from JolleyG

On reading this novel, one wonders what attracts the two characters - Noguchi, a traditional and very straight-laced man, and Kazu, a self-made and life-loving woman - to each other. Clearly Noguch...