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Runaway Horses

By: Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher - Translator - translator
Narrated by: David Shih
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The second novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility—and "a modern masterpiece" (The Baltimore Sun)—narrated by a judge in Osaka who believes he has met the successive reincarnation of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae.

In 1932, Shigekuni Honda has become a judge in Osaka. Convinced that a young rightist revolutionary, Isao, is the reincarnation of his friend Kiyoaki, 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. Runaway Horses is the chronicle of a conspiracy—a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war.

©1973 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
20th Century Classics Coming of Age Genre Fiction Historical Fiction World Literature
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