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A young man expends his spirit in the obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and a passionate search for mystical enlightenment. "Yukio Mishima's The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, 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…
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5 editions · 3 languages- Other · English · 1990The temple of dawnVintage Books · 9780679722427
- Other · English · 1973The temple of dawn.Knopf; [distributed by Random House] · 334 pages · 9780394466149
- Other · EnglishThe Temple of dawnPocket Books · 313 pages · 9780671824532
- Other · Russian · 2005Khram na rassveteSymposium · 382 pages · 9785890913005
- Other · Japanese · 1997Shinchousha · 378 pages · 9784101050232
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