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'The best book I've read this year ... darkly comedic and full of tension and surprise' Marina Abramovic 'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will cause no bother at all.' When Hanio Yamada realises the future holds little of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of unimaginable exploits. A world of murderous mobsters, hidden cameras, a vampire woman, poisoned carrots, code-breaking, a hopeless junkie heiress and makeshift explosives reveals itself to the unwitting hero. Is there nothing he can do to stop it? Resolving to follow the orders of his would-be purchasers, he comes to understand what life is worth, and whether we can indeed name our price.
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Life for Sale, Mishima Yukio
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- Life for Sale
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Mishima Yukio
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0241333156
- ISBN13
- 9780241333150
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, Classics, Death, Sexuality & Intimacy, Japan, Asia, Violence, Japanese Literature, Struggle for survival, 1960s, Tokyo, Absurdity
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- 'The best book I've read this year ... darkly comedic and full of tension and surprise' Marina Abramovic 'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will cause no bother at all.' When Hanio Yamada realises the future holds little of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of unimaginable exploits. A world of murderous mobsters, hidden cameras, a vampire woman, poisoned carrots, code-breaking, a hopeless junkie heiress and makeshift explosives reveals itself to the unwitting hero. Is there nothing he can do to stop it? Resolving to follow the orders of his would-be purchasers, he comes to understand what life is worth, and whether we can indeed name our price.