Spring Snow

Spring Snow

Fiction, Fiction & Poetry, General Fiction
Paperback Published on: 11/03/1999
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Spring Snow
A beautiful novel
‘On a warm spring day, a galloping horse was only too clearly a sweating animal of flesh and blood. But a horse racing through a snowstorm became one with ... READ MORE
Jen Wootton at Covent Garden
Spring Snow
Gripping!
The master of Japanese prose embarks us on a gripping coming-of-age journey through an unforgettable love story.
Manon Divet

Synopsis

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful elite.

Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family – members of the waning aristocracy – but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko. His devoted friend Honda watches from the sidelines. It is only when Satoko is engaged to a royal prince that Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion.

'An austere love story, probably my favourite of his novels' David Mitchell, Independent on Sunday

'[Mishima's] best work, unnerving as it may be, still casts a spell; and I suspect it will retain its dark radiance' Guardian

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099282990
  • Number of pages: 400
  • Weight: 283g
  • Dimensions: 199 x 129 x 25 mm

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