The Temple of Dawn
  • Published: 1 June 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099282792
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $26.00

The Temple of Dawn

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The third novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetralogy

Mishima’s literary powers are on full display in his penultimate novel, a meditation on reincarnation and Buddhist philosophy.

Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business. He is granted an audience with a young Thai princess known as 'Moonlight', an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. Convinced she is a reincarnated spirit, he undertakes a long, arduous pilgrimage to the holy places of India. There he encounters her again. But the princess has become one more embodiment of all that Honda cannot possess.

'An elegy to the loss of pureness in the Japanese national spirit' Japan Times
  • Published: 1 June 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099282792
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $26.00
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Praise for The Temple of Dawn

The four novels remain one of the outstanding works of 20th-Century literature and a summary of the author's life and work... Like the Divine Comedy and Remembrance of Things Past, "The Sea of Fertility" gives the reader the sensation of being carried to a great height...but Mishima abandons the reader at the edge of the precipice, revealing the abyss beneath the degraded life of the post-war world

Los Angeles Times

Japan's foremost man of letters

Spectator

Tremendous...evocative and poetic

Los Angeles Times

Surpassingly chilling, subtle, and original

New York Times

The four novels remain one of the outstanding works of 20th-Century literature and a summary of the author's life and work... Like the Divine Comedy and Remembrance of Things Past, "The Sea of Fertility" gives the reader the sensation of being carried to a great height...but Mishima abandons the reader at the edge of the precipice, revealing the abyss beneath the degraded life of the post-war world

Los Angeles Times

Tremendous...evocative and poetic

Los Angeles Times

Japan's foremost man of letters

Spectator