The Decay of the Angel (The Sea of Fertility #4)

Yukio Mishima


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4.13 · 16 ratings · 256 pages · Published: 05 Nov 1970

The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima
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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