Mishima’s 1960 novel is a portrait of love and marriage in later life and features his best female character – the irrepressible Kazu.
For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness – then she falls in love.
The man is one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, and she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit. Eventually Kazu must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. After the Banquet is a magnificent portrait of political and domestic warfare and love in later life.
ISBN: 9780099282785
Publication date: 01/06/2001
Price: $26.00
RRP: $26.00
Format: Paperback
Available stock: 1
Publishing status: Active
Author: Mishima, Yukio
Imprint: Vintage
