Star

Mishima's novels exude a monstrous and compulsive weirdness, and seem to take place in a kind of purgatory for the depraved

Angela Carter

Mishima was one of literature's great romantics, a tragedian with a heroic sensibility, an intellectual, an esthete, a man steeped in Western letters who toward the end of his life became a militant Japanese nationalist

New York Times

Mishima is the Japanese Hemingway

Life Magazine

A writer of immense energy and ability

Time Out

A stunning addition to the oeuvre of one of postwar Japan's greatest storytellers

Wall Street Journal

A startlingly modern, hypervisual jewel; it could be a really interesting movie. It was mesmerizing, seeming to fall in my hands from an alternative sky.

Patti Smith