Silk and Insight: A Novel

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An important contribution to Japans postwar literature and politics, this early work by Yukio Mishima, one of twentiethcentury Japans greatest novelists, is based on the strike which took place in the mid1950s at Omi Kenshi, a silk manufacturer not far from Kyoto. Mishimas characters are fascinating and thoroughly believable, and the events described faithfully reflect the managementlabor tensions of that period.Superbly translated by Hiro Sato, this is one of the last works of Mishima to be translated into English. It remains a fascinating work of literature and an excellent piece of social commentary on the transformation of Japanese business from the old paternalism which was by no means all that benevolent to a new world where labor unions were as active as any social institution in enhancing their image

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