Description
A hopeless stutterer, taunted by his schoolmates, Mizoguchi feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. But he quickly becomes obsessed with the temple's beauty, and cannot live in peace as long as it exists.
Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/04/1994
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.22w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9780679752707
ISBN10: 0679752706
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Coming of Age
Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/04/1994
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.22w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9780679752707
ISBN10: 0679752706
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Coming of Age
About the Author
Yukio Mishima was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1925. One of Japan's most acclaimed and well-known authors of the 20th century, his works include The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, The Sound of Waves, and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy (Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn, and The Decay of the Angel). He died in 1970.