After the Banquet Social & cultural history 'A stunning and compelling debut

'A stunning and compelling debut

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After the Banquet Social & cultural history 'A stunning and compelling debutMishima's 1960 novel is a portrait of love and marriage in later life and features his best female character the irrepressible Kazu. For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness then she falls in love. The man is one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, and she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit. Eventually Kazu must