Spring Snow [The Sea of Fertility: A Cycle in Four Novels]

Yukio Mishima

ISBN 10: 0394442393 / ISBN 13: 9780394442396

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1972

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Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, highlighting of text, writing in margins. No missing pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spring Snow [The Sea of Fertility: A Cycle in Four Novels]
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394442393
• ISBN 13: 9780394442396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 503.488 grams

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Synopsis

Kiyoaki Matsugae's passionate and ill-fated love for the betrothed daughter of a Tokyo aristocrat brings him into disfavor at the Imperial Court

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The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertility
Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders -- rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power.
Among this rising new elite are the ambitious Matsugae, whose son has been raised in a family of the waning aristocracy, the elegant and attenuated Ayakura. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new -- fiercely loving and hating the exquisite, spirited Ayakura Satoko. He suffers in psychic paralysis until the shock of her engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion, and leads to a love affair that is as doomed as it was inevitable.