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Spring Snow: The Sea of Fertility, 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679722410)
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x"A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend.
It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders--rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki's true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion--and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.
Author: Yukio Mishima
ISBN-10: 0679722416
ISBN-13: 9780679722410
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/14/1990
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.25w x 0.74d
It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders--rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki's true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion--and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.
Author: Yukio Mishima
ISBN-10: 0679722416
ISBN-13: 9780679722410
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/14/1990
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.25w x 0.74d
By Yukio Mishima
xYUKIO MISHIMA was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University's School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, The Sea of Fertility tetralogy--which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)--is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of 45 and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)--a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.
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