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by Yukio Mishima
Kōochan narrates his youth in wartime and postwar Japan, chronicling his discovery of forbidden homosexual desire and his attempts to mask his true nature behind conventional performance. Mishima's searing autobiographical novel explores shame, eroticism, death, and the masks we wear to survive in a society that cannot accept who we are.
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