Description
Yukio Mishima's first volume in the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—the most ambitious work in the history of Japanese fiction—follows the tragic love affair between two young people of the Japanese aristocracy in the last years before the modernizing force of the Western world transforms their universe beyond recognition. Written with the formal beauty and the deep attentiveness to the Japanese aesthetic traditions of impermanence and loss that make Mishima's best work incomparable, this is literary fiction of extraordinary distinction. Essential reading for every admirer of Mishima and every student of world literary modernism.
