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Life for Sale

by Stephen Dodd, Yukio Mishima
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Life for Sale
Life for Sale

Darkly comedic exploration of life's value.

"Life for Sale" is quite the rollercoaster—it's a dark comedy that takes an absurd premise and weaves it into a compelling narrative about life's worth. You'll find yourself part of a bizarre journey through Tokyo's underbelly, filled with oddball characters and unexpected twists. It's for anyone who enjoys a novel that combines humor with a philosophical edge, all wrapped up in a page-turning mystery. If you seek a satirical take on the human condition, this book might just be an intriguing find.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Life for Sale

by Stephen Dodd, Yukio Mishima
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ISBN: 9780241333150
Authors: Stephen Dodd, Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date of Publication: 2020-07-30
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Classics, Asian Literature, Japanese Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.71
(rated by 12437 readers)

Description

“A propulsive, madcap story” (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. After salaryman Hanio Yamada puts his life up for sale, interested parties quickly come calling with increasingly bizarre requests. What follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots—even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the crosshairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate. By turns wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and deeply surreal, in Life for Sale Yukio Mishima stunningly uses satire to explore the same dark themes that preoccupied him throughout his lifetime.
 

Darkly comedic exploration of life's value.

"Life for Sale" is quite the rollercoaster—it's a dark comedy that takes an absurd premise and weaves it into a compelling narrative about life's worth. You'll find yourself part of a bizarre journey through Tokyo's underbelly, filled with oddball characters and unexpected twists. It's for anyone who enjoys a novel that combines humor with a philosophical edge, all wrapped up in a page-turning mystery. If you seek a satirical take on the human condition, this book might just be an intriguing find.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.