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The Decay of the Angel - The Sea of Fertility : A Cycle of Four Novels

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Publisher's Synopsis

The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology.

It is the 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru. Honda believes that the boy is the reincarnation of the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, he makes him his heir, and watches him, waiting. But Toru is also watching Honda...

'A surpassingly chilling, subtle and original novel' New York Times

'Mishima's ritualistic suicide in 1970 will always overshadow his work, but his dark saga of 20th-century Japan is mesmerising' Guardian

About the Publisher

Vintage Classics

Vintage Classics has existed since the inception of Vintage and is widely seen as the top twentieth-century classics list in the UK, publishing Graham Greene, Harper Lee, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf, among others. August 2007 saw the relaunch of the list and Vintage Classics now also publishes the greatest writers from previous centuries, such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and Henry James.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099284574
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Pub date:
DEWEY: 895.635
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 236
Weight: 186g
Height: 148mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 16mm