Life for sale

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) In the novel “Life for Sale”, a young employee of the advertising company Hanio Yamada after an unsuccessful attempt to suicide puts an announcement in the newspaper: “I will sell life. You can use me at your discretion. Confidentiality is guaranteed. And who does not turn to him! Among his clients, a jealous husband, a heir-a-term-aim of the embassy, ​​incapable of independently solving the mystery of poisoned carrots, and even a natural vampire. And now, instead of quietly and peacefully accounting for life, Hanio Yamada is at the center of a global conspiracy ...
A brilliant example of the endless imagination of Misima at the peak of form. Paradoxical ideas about the nature of being are set out with a proprietary ironic grin ”(The Japan Times)