Runaway Horses

The Sea of Fertility, 2

von Yukio Mishima

432 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The second novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility—and “a modern masterpiece” (The Baltimore Sun)—narrated by a judge in Osaka who believes he has met the successive reincarnation of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae.In 1932, Shigekuni 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.

• Reihe: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• ISBN: 9780679722403
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.1990
• Größe: 204 x 133 mm
• Verlag: Random House