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      Runaway Horses

      by Yukio Mishima
      Published
      May 1973
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      432
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      Series
      Sea of Fertility Book 2

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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.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical Literary

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      Jewish

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      Apr 1990 Vintage ISBN13 9780679722403 ISBN10 0679722408
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      Sep 1975 Simon & Schuster ISBN13 9780671800932 ISBN10 0671800930
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      Jul 1978 Pocket ISBN13 9780671825423 ISBN10 0671825429
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      Jan 1984 Simon & Schuster ISBN13 9780671434953 ISBN10 0671434950
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      Mar 1999 Ebury Publishing (UK) ISBN13 9780099282891 ISBN10 0099282895
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      First Edition May 1973 Knopf ISBN13 9780394466187 ISBN10 0394466187
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      Apr 2013 Knopf ISBN13 9780307834300 ISBN10 0307834301
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