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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

By Yukio Mishima , Ivan Morris , Nancy Wilson Ross , Fumi Komatsu

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1994
ISBN
0679752706, 9780679752707
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2686555 bytes)
Pages
288\0
Time added
2014-01-25 23:02:05

Description

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 until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. He quickly becomes obsessed with the beauty of the temple. Even when tempted by a friend into exploring the geisha district, he cannot escape its image. In the novel's soaring climax, he tries desperately to free himself from his fixation.

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