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<p>Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite.</p><p>Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda. When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince, Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion.</p>

Autorenportrait

Yukio Mishima was born into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete control over mind and body, and loyalty to the Emperor - the same code that produced the austerity and self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless stories and thirty-three plays, in some of which he performed. Several films have been made from his novels, including<i>The Sound of Waves</i>,<i>Enjo</i>which was based on<i>The</i><i>Temple of the Golden Pavilion</i>and<i>The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea.</i>Among his other works are the novels<i>Confessions of a Mask</i>and<i>Thirst for Love</i>and the short story collections<i>Death in Midsummer</i>and<i>Acts of Worship</i>.<i>The Sea of Fertility</i>tetralogy, however, is his masterpiece. After Mishima conceived the idea of<i>The Sea of Fertility</i>in 1964, he frequently said he would die when it was completed. On 25 November 1970, the day he completed<i>The Decay of the Angel</i>, the last novel of the cycle, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide) at the age of forty-five.

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