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Title Life for sale / Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Dodd
Imprint New York : Vintage International, 2020
©2019

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 Stadsbibl:Ljusets kalender vån 2 Romaner på engelska  Roman engelska    DUE 24-04-08  ---
Descript 188 pages 21 cm
Note Translated from the Japanese
"After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. But what begins as mere nihilism takes a turn for the unexpected as interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests. What follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots--even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself caught up in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the cross hairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime cartel. Wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and at times deeply surreal, Life For Sale is refreshingly unlike anything else in Yukio Mishima's oeuvre, and an essential work of international literature, finally available in English"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Självmord
Svart humor
Japanese fiction
Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction
Romaner
Classmark 895.63/5
Heexj.01
Alt Auth Dodd, Stephen, 1955-
Translation Inochi urimasu Engelska
ISBN/ISSN 9780525565147 trade paperback
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