Fiction
Forbidden colours
Mishima's second novel, written when he was young enough to be cruel and talented enough to get away with it. An aging writer and a beautiful young man enter a pact of revenge against women, which works about as well as such pacts ever do. The novel is full of mirrors, perfumes, and rooms where the light is always too perfect. This Penguin paperback carries the slight mustiness of a book that has been shelved for decades, which suits its atmosphere. For readers who can stomach beauty used as a weapon and who understand that youth, like paper, yellows whether you want it to or not.
$18.00
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