Mishima, Yukio,  1925-1970 <br/><br/>
Thirst for love / 
Yukio Mishima 
 - New York :  Alfred A. Knopf,  1969 
 - 200 p. ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/> Translation of Ai no kawaki. 
<br/><br/> In Thirst for Love, Japan's modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosive jealousy that is as delicately nuanced as Madame Bovary and as remorseless as Justine. Yukio Mishima's protagonist is Etsuko, whose philandering husband has died horribly from typhoid. The young widow moves into the household of her father-in-law, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances.  But soon Etsuko falls in love with the young servant, Saburo. Tormented by his indifference yet invigorated by her anguish, she makes one last, catastrophic bid for his attention. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the Japanese to English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>039950494X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Widows--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC MIS