# Forbidden Colours

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- Book: [Forbidden Colours](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima/forbidden-colours) ([Forbidden Colours.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima/forbidden-colours.md))
- Authors: [Yukio Mishima](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-956-7
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2008-10-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann's Death in Venice , the older man's longing for the beauty of youth is associated with aestheticism and death.