Death in Midsummer

Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan's greatest writers show the pull between duty and desire, ecstasy and death: a mother lost in mourning, a moonlit journey to fulfil a wish, a night of infidelity, a young lieutenant who ends his life.

Pline de descriere bogata si frumusete luxoasa, aceste zece povesti despre pierdere si dor ale unuia dintre cei mai mari scriitori ai Japoniei arata atractia dintre datorie si dorinta, extaz si moarte: o mama pierduta in doliu, o calatorie la lumina lunii pentru a-si indeplini o dorinta, o noapte de infidelitate, un tanar locotenent care isi pune capat vietii.