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      Spring Snow

      by Yukio Mishima
      Published
      Jun 1972
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      376
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      Sea of Fertility Book 1

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      "A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend. 

      It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders—rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki's true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion—and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.

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      Jan 1983 Pocket ISBN13 9780671434946 ISBN10 0671434942
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      Sep 1976 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780140041361 ISBN10 0140041362
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      Apr 1981 Simon & Schuster ISBN13 9780671434250 ISBN10 067143425X
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      Jul 1984 Pocket ISBN13 9780671540623 ISBN10 0671540629
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      Apr 1990 Vintage ISBN13 9780679722410 ISBN10 0679722416
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      Mar 1999 Ebury Publishing (UK) ISBN13 9780099282990 ISBN10 0099282992
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      First Edition Jun 1972 Knopf ISBN13 9780394442396 ISBN10 0394442393
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      Mar 2010 Vintage ISBN13 9781407054131 ISBN10 1407054139
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