Mishima : A Biography Condition:Very Good Antkind is a richly layered

Antkind is a richly layered meditation on art

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Mishima : A Biography Condition:Very Good Antkind is a richly layeredAt forty five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea . In 1970 he startled the world by stepping out onto a balcony in Tokyo before an assembly of troops and plunging a sword into his abdomen; a disciple then beheaded him, completing the ritual of hara kiri. John Nathan's riveting biography traces the life of this tortured, nearly