Yukio Mishima is the world's most famous and widely read Japanese writer. He was equally famous for his works in all conceivable genres (romances, plays, stories, essays), and extravagant lifestyle and death (harakiri after a failed attempt at a monarchical coup). In the novel Life for Sale, a young employee of the advertising company Hanio Yamada, after a failed suicide attempt, places an advertisement in the newspaper: “I will sell life . You can use me at your discretion . Privacy is guaranteed.". And who does not turn to him! Among his clients is a jealous husband, a nymphomaniac heiress, the embassy intelligence service, unable to solve the riddle of poisoned carrots on its own, and even a natural vampire . And so, instead of quietly and peacefully taking his own life, Hanio Yamada finds himself at the center of a conspiracy of a global scale ... Paradoxical ideas about the nature of being are set forth with a branded ironic grin" (The Japan Times). For the first time in Russian!