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Item Details
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MISHIMA'S SWORD
TRAVELS IN SEARCH OF A SAMURAI LEGEND |
| By: |
Christopher Ross |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£11.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0007135092 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780007135097 |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
12 January, 2007 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
The stunning book from Christopher Ross, Sunday Times top 10 bestselling author of `Tunnel Visions'. |
| Synopsis: |
The stunning book from Christopher Ross, Sunday Times top 10 bestselling author of `Tunnel Visions'.In 1970 Japan's most famous writer, Yukio Mishima, cut open his stomach and was then beheaded with his own antique sword. His anachronistic suicide has been called many things: a desperate heroic gesture; a work of art; a political protest; the antics of a madman. But which is correct? And what became of Mishima's sword?Thirty years later Christopher Ross sets out for Japan on the trail of those who might have answers: craftsmen and critics; soldiers and swordsmen; boyfriends and biographers; even the man who taught Mishima hara-kiri. Like his best-selling `Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher', Christopher Ross has written another unclassifiable blend of travel writing, autobiography and philosophical enquiry to create a mesmeric account of modern Japan and the peculiar death that haunts it to this day. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
HarperPerennial |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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