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Title	:	Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility #2)
Author	:	Yukio Mishima
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	March 11th 1999 by Vintage Classics (first published 1969)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction

Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility #2) Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

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Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor’s rightful power. As the conspiracy unfolds and unravels, Mishima brilliantly chronicles the conflicts of a decade that saw the fabric of Japanese life torn apart.

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Original Title:	(奔馬
ISBN:	0099282895 (ISBN13: 9780099282891)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Sea of Fertility #2
Characters:	Shigekuni Honda, Isao Iinuma, Shigeyuki Iinuma
Setting:	Osaka(Japan)

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With how much I loved "Spring Snow," I thought I would love this one, too. While it is still good, it is definitely the weakest novel I have read so far from Mishima. This both proves that even at his worst, Mishima is still really good. However, this book took AGES to start. Nearly 150 pages. All those pages were boring exposition and really lacked in character and brilliant writing. I expect more from Mishima. However, the rest of the book is DEFINITELY the normal Mishima (amazing). Even

In the decadent West people often get together and have all kinds of pointless, speculative conversations. The current political climate being what it is, one subject that frequently comes up, at least amongst my friends, is whether you would be prepared to die for a cause, or an ideal. During these debates my position is unequivocal; my answer is a firm no. No. Never. Not under any circumstances. My vehemence can, in part, be explained by my cowardice. I am, I freely admit, a rum coward. Im not

I very much enjoyed book one in the series and therefore this volume, book two, was completely unexpected: the plot never went where I expected it to go, until the very end. There are similarities between the main protagonists: in both books they are male and aged 18, but if Kiyo in book one is a dreamer, Isao in book two is hell bent on action. I don't want to give away the plot, let alone the ending but there is tragedy involved in both cases.This particular book is not an easy read because in

Certainly the best or second best Mishima novel I've read yet. A eulogy to the beauty of youthful martyrdom. Purity again is a central theme of the text. Reading this brings to light many questions for any reader who believes that any given set of ideas is important. How far would you be willing to go for what you believe in? How much is your life worth, compared to the ideals you claim to hold? Are people who transcend the flesh in this way mad or enlightened? Hona's character is as usual,

Moving away from the tragic romance of the first book and into politics but its not boring at all, it's powerful and dark. Really dark when you think about how this foreshadows Mishima's life. Has the best ending out of the four.

if ever a novel could be labeled as a masterpiece, it is this one; I lost contact with this world while reading both this book and Spring Snow. It also resonates since part of my PhD work was focused on the use of Shinto ideology and national mythology in the rise of ultranationalist fanaticism before and during WII (and specifically war shrines), and Mishima is spot on here. More when I finish the next two books, but seriously, five stars is a drop in the bucket for the greatness of this one.

The extreme right wing politics almost dragged this down to a 3 star rating, however the language, the allegory & metaphor as well as the narrative hook probably puts it at 5 stars. I'll average things out. Much preferred volume one of the tetralogy so let's hope they don't slip further as we head into 3 & 4.Not quite a Japanese Proust (as one reviewer claims) but up there in the monuments of world literature.