Yukio Mishima's *The Decay of the Angel* is the final novel in his masterful tetralogy, *The Sea of Fertility*. It is the last installment of Shigekuni Honda's pursuit of the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. It is the late 1960s and Honda, now an aged and we
The Decay of the Angel
โ Scribed by Yukio Mishima
- Publisher
- Random House;Vintage Digital
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 143 KB
- Edition
- UK Edition
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, yet watches him, waiting.
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