The Temple of Dawn
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.9
Yukio Mishima
The third novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, in which a brilliant lawyer will go to nearly any length to discover whether a young Thai princess is in fact the reincarnated spirit of his childhood friend. • “Surpassingly chilling, subtle, and original.” —The New York TimesHere, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princess—an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is the reincarnated spirit of his friend Kiyoaki. As Honda goes to great lengths to discover for certain if his theory is correct, The Temple of Dawn becomes the story of one man’s obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.
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Author
Yukio Mishima
Pages
352
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2013-04-09
ISBN
0307834328 9780307834324
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"I didn't enjoy this book as much as the previous one in this series. Honda is not ageing well, nor is his marriage. There was a bunch of mumbo jumbo about spirituality and reincarnation that I skipped over and the story is not very interesting and kind of disturbing, in not a good way. At times I got into it but on the whole, this is probably 2.5 stars."
John Woakes