| Notes : | | Life for Sale (Hepburn: Inochi Urimasu) is a 1968 novel by Yukio Mishima. It was first serialised in twenty-one parts in the weekly magazine Weekly Playboy between 21 May 1968 and 8 October 1968. It was published in hardcover format by Shueisha on 25 December 1968. It was published in paperback by Chikuma Bunko on 24 February 1998. It was translated into English by Stephen Dodd and published in paperback in the United Kingdom by Penguin Classics on 1 August 2019. The English translation received a wider release in paperback by Vintage International on 21 April 2020.
In 2018, the novel was adapted as a BS TV Tokyo television drama starring Aoi Nakamura as Hanio Yamada. | |
| Originally released : | | 12/25/1968 | |
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| Description (by producer & GT in English only) : | | '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 realizes the future holds nothing of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of unimaginable exploits.
A world of revenge, murderous mobsters, hidden cameras, a vampire woman, poisonous carrots, espionage and code-breaking, a junkie heiress, home-made explosives and decoys reveals itself to the unwitting Hanio. Is there anything he can do to stop it? | |
| Source : | | Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_for_Sale)Original release date & notes | |
| Source : | | Penguin Books UK (www.penguin.co.uk/books/306763/life-for-sale-by-mishima-yukio/9780241333150)Description | |
| Credits (Main Page): | | Author : Yukio Mishima | |
| Tags : | | Fiction | |
| Tags : | | Satire | |
| Tags : | | Novel | |
| Tags : | | Black Comedy | |
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| Language : | | Japanese | |
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