The temple of Dawn /
Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970
The temple of Dawn / Yukio Mishima ; translated by E. Dale Saunders and Cecilia Segawa Seigle. - London : Vintage, 2001. - 330 p. : 20 cm.
Part of the tetralogy The sea of fertility.
Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business, where he is granted an audience with a young Thai princess - an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. He is convinced she is a reincarnated spirit, and undertakes a long, arduous pilgrimage to the holy places of India, where, in the climatic scene, he encounters her once more, only to have his newfound beliefs shattered and his life bereft of all meaning.
Translated from the Japanese.
9780099282792
Lawyers--Fiction
Japanese--Travel--India--Fiction
895.63
The temple of Dawn / Yukio Mishima ; translated by E. Dale Saunders and Cecilia Segawa Seigle. - London : Vintage, 2001. - 330 p. : 20 cm.
Part of the tetralogy The sea of fertility.
Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business, where he is granted an audience with a young Thai princess - an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. He is convinced she is a reincarnated spirit, and undertakes a long, arduous pilgrimage to the holy places of India, where, in the climatic scene, he encounters her once more, only to have his newfound beliefs shattered and his life bereft of all meaning.
Translated from the Japanese.
9780099282792
Lawyers--Fiction
Japanese--Travel--India--Fiction
895.63