Runaway Horses

This is one of my favourite books from, probably, my favourite author. Fast delivery, and the book arrived safely with no water/dampness marks or little tears and folds in the pages, as has happened when ordering from other online retailers.

another fantastic Mishima novel.

I’m very satisfied

Damaged corner

Blazing with feral energy, Mishima's second installment in "The Sea of Fertility" tetralogy is fiercer, darker, and unsettling. Isao, a reincarnation of the tragic, melancholy Kiyoaki, from Mishima's first installment "Spring Snow" set in the early years of the Taishō period, is a patriot whose discontent towards the new social and economic order brought about by Westernization of Japan and its gradual decay into economic recession and widespread political corruption morphs into a violent obsession with purity, a restoration of the old Samurai ethos of the pre-Meiji era Japan where the Emperor assumed absolute power of the State. Honda, now a middle-aged judge, who follows his childhood friend Kiyoaki's reincarnation after twenty years of his death and yet again bears witness to the destructive power of heedless passion now taking over Isao, represents the rational, controlled aspect of mind and spirit. In "Runaway Horses", Mishima, through his tormented protagonist, chronicles the dying spirit of Japan, plagued by unrest and poverty, in which every attempt to reclaim its lost glory and integrity is brutally thwarted.