Thirst for love. Mishima Yu.

Yukio Mishima is the most famous and readable Japanese writer in the world. He became famous equally both by his works in all conceivable genres (novels, plays, stories, essays), as well as an extravagant style of life and death (Harakiri after an unsuccessful attempt by a monarchical coup).

“The thirst for love”, one of the early and most significant works of Yukio Misima, was included in UNESCO in a collection of masterpieces of Japanese literature. The action of the novel takes place in the post -war period in a small village near the city of Osaka. The main character Etsuko, a young widow, is obsessed with a secret passion for a young gardener...