Confessions of a Mask

Confessions of a MaskBy: Yukio Mishima Series: Penguin Modern Classics 'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain' A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the objects of his lust are tortured, killed and maimed. But, in the rigid world of imperial wartime Japan

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日本超人氣童書作家。現居於日本靜岡縣，畢業於日本大學藝術學系美術科，1970年出版了第一本圖畫書，以《超神奇糖果鋪》獲得日本繪本賞讀者獎，至今已創作了無數膾炙人口、深得大小讀者喜愛的故事。暢銷作品有：《我爸爸超厲害》、《走啊走》、《聽說小豬變地瓜了》、《爸爸大集合》（以上皆由維京國際出版）。

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在幼兒的生活中，什麼最重要呢？那就是讓孩子可以經常打開五官去感受、盡情探索外在世界、開心玩遊戲及鼓勵他們天馬行空的想像。因為孩子在這個階段有著一生中最寶貴的特質和天賦，那就是好奇、感性、純真和想像力。

he revered the law

but thanks to a series of personal crises and their wily grandmother

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he began his quest to put everything in its rightful place

Engulfed by vivid images of the past