{"product_id":"death-in-midsummer-9780811201179","title":"Death in Midsummer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In Death in Midsummer Yukio Mishima unfolds to English-language readers a range of his talents as he explores a variety of pathways into the complex Japanese personality. He can be funny, even hilarious, but he is also capable of plunging into the dark psychic depths achieved by Hitchcock.\" -- Robert Trumbull - The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"When I read a writer such as Mishima I’m not only experiencing a narrative but also dueling with another darkness behind the words. A seemingly empty house haunted with invisible presences obtusely felt, and the tingle of awareness that someone else is in it, watching.\" -- Benjamin Hale - n+1\u003cbr\u003e\"Genius...Yukio Mishima is one of the great writers of the 20th-century. An extraordinary mind.\" -- The Los Angeles Times","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527829365079,"sku":"9780811201179","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780811201179.jpg?v=1731869400","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/death-in-midsummer-9780811201179","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}