The Temple of Dawn

"The four novels remain one of the outstanding works of 20th-Century literature and a summary of the author's life and work... Like the Divine Comedy and Remembrance of Things Past, "The Sea of Fertility" gives the reader the sensation of being carried to a great height...but Mishima abandons the reader at the edge of the precipice, revealing the abyss beneath the degraded life of the post-war world" Los Angeles Times "Surpassingly chilling, subtle, and original" New York Times "Japan's foremost man of letters" Spectator "Tremendous...evocative and poetic" Los Angeles Times