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The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781407053882

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • RRP: £9.99

The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty. This powerful story of dedication and sacrifice brings together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religion and national history to dazzling effect.

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781407053882

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • RRP: £9.99

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  • "A dark vision...a beautiful, disturbing novel"

    Los Angeles Times

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About the Author

Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of the Japan's most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests, besides writing, included body-building, acting and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realizing this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature three times.

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