Gemma's review
After the Banquet (Vintage Classics) by Yukio Mishima
Very elegant and psychologically acute novel about politics and ambition. It has a very vibrant main character who is also quite a schemer and certainly interesting and vivid, although I don't think you'd want to spend much time with her. It has that quite glacial Mishima quality, but it is a bit more accessible than some of his books. Perceptive and insightful.
