The Decay of the Angel

BOOK DETAILS
Price: $22.99
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780099284574
Published: February 2001
This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.
The fourth and final book in Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility
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
Book details and technical specifications
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780099284574
Published: February 2001
Number of pages: 256
Width: 129 mm
Height: 197 mm
Depth: 15 mm
Publisher: Vintage Publishing