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Confessions of a Mask (1958)
Others: Positive Confessions of a Mask is Japanese author Yukio Mishima's second novel. Published in 1949, it launched him to national fame though he was only in his early twenties.
- ISBN:
- 9780811201186
- Length:
- 254 pages
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