Life for sale - Yukio Mishima

'The best book I've read this year ... darkly comedic and full of tension and surprise' Marina Abramovic

'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 realises the future holds little of worth to him, he puts
his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of
unimaginable exploits. A world of murderous mobsters, hidden cameras, a
vampire woman, poisoned carrots, code-breaking, a hopeless junkie
heiress and makeshift explosives reveals itself to the unwitting hero.
Is there nothing he can do to stop it? Resolving to follow the orders of
his would-be purchasers, he comes to understand what life is worth, and
whether we can indeed name our price.