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Spring Snow

Yukio Mishima · 1969 CE · Novel · Japanese · Contemporary

In the Taishō years a marquis's son raised among a fading court aristocracy treats the girl he grew up beside as an irritation, until an imperial prince is betrothed to her and she becomes the one thing beyond his reach. His schoolfriend Honda, a law student who believes in reason, watches. The first movement of the tetralogy Mishima worked at through the last six years of his life.

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