Thirst for Love

Yukio Mishima, Alfred H. Marks

Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
3.78 · 18 ratings · 208 pages · Published: 22 Feb 1999
Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima, Alfred H. Marks
In Thirst for Love , Japan's greatest modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosive jealousy that is as delicately nuanced as Madame Bovary and as remorseless as Justine . Yukio Mishima's protagonist is Etsuko, whose philandering husband has died horribly from typhoid. the young widow moves into the household of her father-in-law, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances.

but soon Etsuko falls in love with the young servant, Saburo. Tormented by his indifference yet invigorated by her anguish, she makes one last, catastrophic bid for his attention. Stunningly acute in its perceptions, excruciating in its psychological suspense, thirst for Love,/i> is a triumph of eroticism, terror, and compassion.
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