Life for Sale

Yukio Mishima — the most famous and widely read Japanese writer in the world. He became renowned equally for his works in all conceivable genres (novels, plays, short stories, essays) and for his extravagant style of life and death (hara-kiri after a failed attempt at a monarchist coup). In the novel «Life for Sale», a young employee of an advertising firm, Haneo Yamada, after a failed suicide attempt, places an advertisement in the newspaper: «Selling my life. You can use me at your discretion. Confidentiality guaranteed». And who doesn't reach out to him! Among his clients are a jealous husband, a nymphomaniac heiress, the embassy's intelligence service, unable to solve the mystery of the poisoned carrots on their own, and even a real vampire. And so, instead of quietly settling accounts with life, Haneo Yamada finds himself at the center of a conspiracy of global proportions…
«A brilliant example of Mishima's boundless imagination at its peak. Paradoxical ideas about the nature of existence are presented with his signature ironic smirk» (The Japan Times).