The Frolic of the Beasts

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A VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL, NOVEMBER 2018

English translation copyright © 2018 by Andrew Clare

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Japan as Kemono no Tawamure by Shinchosha, Tokyo, in 1961. Copyright © 1961 by Yukio Mishima Estate.

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