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245	1		_aThe Decay of the angel / _cYukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker.
100			_aMishima, Yukio
100			_d1925-1970.
700	0		_aSeidensticker, Edward, _etranslator
260			_aNew York : _bVintage International, _c1990.
250			_a1st Vintage International
300			_a236 pages:
300			_c20 cm
490			_aThe Sea of fertility ; [4]
020			_a9780679722434
650			_aAdoption _zJapan _vFICTION
653			_aJapan _vFiction. Japan _xSocial life and customs _y1945 _vFiction
944			_aFIC
050			_aM6872 1990
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953			_pSH0673
546			_ain English
953			_cHigh School Library
520			_a"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 wealthy man, once more encounters a person he believes to be a reincarnation of his friend, Kiyoaki -- this time restored to life as a teenage orphan, Toru. Adopting the boy as his heir, Honda quickly finds that Toru is a force to be reckoned with. The final novel of this celebrated tetralogy weaves together the dominant themes of the previous three novels in the series: the decay of Japan`s courtly tradition; the essence and value of Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics; and, underlying all, Mishima`s apocalyptic vision of the modern era."--Publisher`s description.
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