Shame In The Blood

"Considered one of the finest love stories in modern Japanese literature, Shame in the Blood sold more than a million copies when first published in Japan, won the Akutagawa Prize for Literature, and was made into a feature film directed by Obayashi Nobuhiko. Working in the great tradition of Japanese novelists from Soseki to Kawabata, from Mishima to Abe, Miura takes his place as one of the greatest Japanese writers of our times."--Back cover.