After the Banquet

Download or read book After the Banquet written by Yukio Mishima and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1999-02-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In After the Banquet, Mishima draws a portrait of a marriage in which lofty principles clash fatally with appetite and ambition. For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the middle-aged entrepreneur falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. In time, however, Kazu decides to resurrect her husband's political career. She embarks on a series of compromises and evasions that will force her to choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. "Kazu is the biggest and the most profound thing Mishima has done so far in an already distinguished career.”—The New Yorker