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, Shigeuki 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.
Author: Yukio Mishima
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/14/1990
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780679722403
Language: English
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