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Other titles in the Sea of Fertility series:

Spring Snow (Sea of Fertility #1)

by Yukio Mishima

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Publisher Comments:

The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when 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. Among this rising new elite are the ambitious Matsugae, whose son has been raised in a family of the waning aristocracy, the elegant and attenuated Ayakura. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new — fiercely loving and hating the exquisite, spirited Ayakura Satoko. He suffers in psychic paralysis until the shock of her engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion, and leads to a love affair that is as doomed as it was inevitable.

Review:

"Mishima is like Stendhal in his precise psychological analyses, like Dostoevsky in his explorations of darkly destructive personalities." Christian Science Monitor

Review:

"[The Sea of Fertility] is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's." National Review
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679722410
Author:
Mishima, Yukio
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Japan
Subject:
Japan Fiction.
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
1990
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Sea of Fertility
Series Volume:
0001
Publication Date:
19900431
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
400
Dimensions:
8.03x5.25x.74 in. .64 lbs.
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