| Runaway Horses: The Sea of Fertility, 2 Contributor(s): Mishima, Yukio (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679722408 ISBN-13: 9780679722403 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1990 Annotation: The chronicle of a conspiracy and a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war--an era marked by depression, social change and political violence. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89040560 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.70 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Yukio Mishima's Runaway Horses is the second novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Again we encounter Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. In 1932, Shigeuki Honda has become a judge in Osaka. Convinced that a young rightist revolutionary, Isao, is the reincarnation of his friend Kiyoaki, Honda commits himself to saving the youth from an untimely death. Isao, driven to patriotic fanaticism by a father who instilled in him the ethos of the ancient samurai, organizes a violent plot against the new industrialists who he believes are usurping the Emperor's rightful power and threatening the very integrity of the nation. Runaway Horses is the chronicle of a conspiracy -- a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war. |