Voices of the Fallen Heroes - And Other Stories

Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of the Japan''s most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests, besides writing, included body-building, acting and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realizing this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times.

Product details

• Authors: Yukio Mishima
• Assisted by: Stephen Dodd (Editor), Dodd Stephen (Editor), Various (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2025
• EAN: 9780241723609
• ISBN: 978-0-241-72360-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 215 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Fiction in translation, Japanese, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Classic fiction: general and literary