Runaway Horses: The Sea of Fertility, 2 -- Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima's <i>Runaway Horses</i> is the second novel in his masterful tetralogy, <i>The Sea of Fertility</i>. Again we encounter Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae.<br> <i> </i><br> In 1932, Shigeuki Honda has become a judge in Osaka. Convinced that a young rightist revolutionary, Isao, is the reincarnation of his friend Kiyoaki<i>, </i> Honda commits himself to saving the youth from an untimely death. Isao, driven to patriotic fanaticism by a father who instilled in him the ethos of the ancient samurai, organizes a violent plot against the new industrialists who he believes are usurping the Emperor's rightful power and threatening the very integrity of the nation. <i>Runaway Horses</i> is the chronicle of a conspiracy -- a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Yukio Mishima<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 04/14/1990<br><b>Pages:</b> 432<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.70lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679722403<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Yukio Mishima</b> was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University's School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, <i>The Forest in Full Bloom</i>, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with <i>Confessions of a Mask </i>(1949).