Book Details
⚡️Book Title : The Temple of Dawn
⚡Book Author : Yukio Mishima
⚡Page : 336 pages
⚡Published March 11th 2001 by Vintage Classics (first published 1970)
The Temple of Dawn - Yukio Mishimas The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princessan encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is the reincarnated spirit of his friend Kiyoaki. As Honda goes to great lengths to discover for certain if his theory is correct, The Temple of Dawn becomes the story of one mans obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.
The Temple of Dawn
Yukio Mishimas The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princessan encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is the reincarnated spirit of his friend Kiyoaki. As Honda goes to great lengths to discover for certain if his theory is correct, The Temple of Dawn becomes the story of one mans obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.
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