The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Author: Mishima, Yukio

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 3 May 2001 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 256 pages
191 x 121 x 17 | 188g

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty. This powerful story of dedication and sacrifice brings together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religion and national history to dazzling effect.