The Temple of Dawn: The Sea of Fertility, 3 by Mishima, Yukio

The Temple of Dawn: The Sea of Fertility, 3 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679722427)

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The Temple of Dawn: The Sea of Fertility, 3 by Mishima, Yukio

The Temple of Dawn: The Sea of Fertility, 3

$16.95
The Temple of Dawn: The Sea of Fertility, 3 by Mishima, Yukio

The Temple of Dawn: The Sea of Fertility, 3

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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The third novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, in which a brilliant lawyer will go to nearly any length to discover whether a young Thai princess is in fact the reincarnated spirit of his childhood friend. - "Surpassingly chilling, subtle, and original." --The New York Times

Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princess--an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is the reincarnated spirit of his friend Kiyoaki. As Honda goes to great lengths to discover for certain if his theory is correct, The Temple of Dawn becomes the story of one man's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.

Author: Yukio Mishima
ISBN-10: 0679722424
ISBN-13: 9780679722427
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/14/1990
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.17w x 0.75d
By Yukio Mishima
By Yukio Mishima
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YUKIO 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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