Former lovers meet in San Francisco, away from their native Japan, what unites them, except sad memories, and what is the thermos? After the failed putsch, the officer commits harakiri in front of a young wife . Four women in a single night of the year should, without saying a word, cross seven bridges to fulfill their desires a simple task, but not everyone will be able to get to the end of the way. The family is trying to survive what it is impossible to survive - the death of two children, fear for the remaining ones. A woman at her birthday loses a pearl, and from such a trifle, the configurations of friendship and hostility between longtime acquaintances change unrecognizably. Suddenly appeared in the antique shop dancer disrupts the sale of an old and very valuable closet I wonder why she needs a closet? . Yukio Mishima (1925970) star of 20th century literature, Most read Japanese author in the world, He has a great talent ,. Famous for his works of the widest range and variety of genres (Romans ,) plays, stories, essay), and stunning biography (obsession with bodybuilding ,) Far-right political views , haraqiri after a failed monarchical coup attempt). Mishima is an infinitely perceptive and ruthless observer, and his collection of short stories Death in the Middle of Summer is an unpredictable, sometimes shocking kaleidoscope in which cruelty and passion, arrogance and vulnerability, fear and love, spiritual darkness and elusive light replace each other. Half of the stories and the play in this collection are published in Russian for the first time.