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Spring Snow

Pages
400
Published
1999
Language
English

Synopsis

A young man from a wealthy merchant family becomes consumed by his devotion to Satoko, the daughter of a fallen noble house. As he pursues her across social and emotional boundaries, their relationship unravels under the weight of class difference, duty, and an obsession that grows increasingly desperate.

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三島由紀夫

Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake; 14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), was a Japanese writer, playwright, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his ritual suicide by seppuku. Mishima is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times in the 1960s. His works include t...

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