Forbidden Colours

Shinsuk is an ageing author whose books present women as creatures of marble perfection, but whose diary contains his true opinion – a disdainful and bilious loathing, engendered by three marriages and countless affairs. When he meets the Yuichi, he sees in the young boy’s incredible beauty and his homosexuality the perfect tools with which to torment and punish the opposite sex. In this starkly fierce and original novel, Shinsuk callously delights in using Yuichi to trap a girl in a loveless marriage and to exact other revenges. But Yuichi soon becomes suffused with a sense of his own power and, no longer willing to be manipulated by anyone, runs dangerously out of control.