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  • Published: 4 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241333150
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $27.99
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Life for Sale




First serialized in Playboy Japan, a stylish, pulp narrative about a failed suicide attempt and the absurd adventures of a young man with nothing to live for

'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?

  • Published: 4 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241333150
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $27.99
Categories:

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Praise for Life for Sale

Yields a rare glimpse of the pulp-fiction flipside that partnered the rhapsodic and mystical Mishima... grotesque, melodramatic, spectacular, utterly silly

The Times

It's funny and horrific and curious and thoroughly entertaining and should win Mishima a new generation of fans

The Independent

There is a place in life for the exhilarating, surreal and sometimes downright silly. This novel ticks all the boxes

Spectator

Succeeds in capturing vividly the bathos of the self-pitying modern nihilist... the absurdity of life is conveyed through the tropes of pulp fiction and manga comics

John Gray, The New Statesman

An engaging all-action satire

The Guardian

A writer of immense energy and ability

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