Confessions of a Mask

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Regarded as Mishima's finest book, Confessions of a Mask is the story of a Japanese boy's development towards a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War.
Detailing his progress from an isolated childhood through adolescence to manhood, including an abortive love affair with a classmate's sister, it reports the inner life of a boy's preoccupation with death. This fourth reprint attests to the power of the novel's enduring themes of fantasy, despair and alienation, and in its autobiographical content, the equally enduring fascination with the life and character of one of Japan's most turbulent artists."