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A classic of modern Japanese fiction. It is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in a polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.
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Japanese Fiction, Gay men, English fiction, Translations from Japanese, Translations into English, Fiction, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Gay men, fiction, Fiction, biographical, LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Gay youth, Gay youth--fictionPeople
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Confessions of a Mask
Publish date unknown, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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in English
081120118X 9780811201186
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Translation of Kamen no Kokuhaku.
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First Sentence
"For many years I claimed I could remember things seen at the time of my own birth."
Work Description
Confessions of a Mask is Japanese author Yukio Mishima's second novel. Published in 1949, it launched him to national fame though he was only in his early twenties.
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