Thirst for love

Author(s)

• 三島, 由紀夫 ミシマ, ユキオ
• Marks, Alfred Harding

Bibliographic Information

Thirst for love

Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by Alfred H. Marks

（Penguin twentieth-century classics）

Penguin, 1978

Other Title

愛の渇き

Note

This translation originally published: London : Secker and Warburg, 1970. - Translation of: 'Ai no kawaki'. Tokyo : Shinchosha, 1950

Description and Table of Contents

Description

After her philandering husband dies from typhoid, the young widow Etsuko moves into the household of her father-in-law, where she numbly bears the old man's sexual advances. Soon she falls in love with the servant Saburo. Tormented by his indifference yet invigorated by her anguish, Etsuko makes one last, catastrophic bid for his attention. Stunningly acute in its perceptions, excruciating in its psychological suspense, Thirst for Love is a triumph of eroticism, terror, and compassion.

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Details

• NCID: BA19510028
• ISBN:
  • 0140181628
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: jpn
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
• Pages/Volumes: 153 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC19 : 895.6/35
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Fiction in Japanese, 1945- - English texts
  • LCSH : Japanese fiction -- Translations into English
  • LCSH : English fiction -- Translations from Japanese
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07487461