Star by Yukio Mishima, Sam Bett (Translator)

Star by Yukio Mishima, Sam Bett (Translator)A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary iconAll eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention. They would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells "action"; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is

Now Tony is in middle age

is a comic masterpiece

and live and die in the red century

The Great Liberation and Hymns to the Goddess and Hymn to Kali

On her mind is the ambitious and good-looking Akshay

showing why Marx and Marxism still matter today

and dense leech-infested jungles

Juliette is still reeling from Warner's betrayal

and for Bill Davidson

the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West—a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power

leaving behind her family and her home for the first time

In the place of religion