{"product_id":"confessions-of-a-mask-9780241301197","title":"Confessions of a Mask","description":"By: Yukio Mishima   | Series: Penguin Modern Classics \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA  Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He  imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian  in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in  his private fantasies, the objects of his lust are tortured, killed and  maimed. But, in the rigid world of imperial wartime Japan there is no  place for such transgressive desires. He must wear a false mask and hide  his true nature, whatever the cost. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A terrific and astringent work of beauty' \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mishima is lucid in the midst of emotional confusion, funny in the midst of despair' Christopher Isherwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Never has a \"confession\" been freer from self-pity' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"GB - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44652202623203,"sku":"DTRPRUK-9780241301197","price":102.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/getimage_eb7683be-595e-4685-bfa6-431622a58adb.jpg?v=1735607191","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/confessions-of-a-mask-9780241301197","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}