Description: The story of one man expending his spirit between obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and an equally passionate search for mystical enlightenment, The Temple of Dawn powerfully dramatizes the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the degradation of the postwar era. Third in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy.
Review Quotes: "Surpassingly chilling, subtle and original."
--The New York Times
"[Mishima's] Sea of Fertility tetralogy. . . shines ever more obviously as one of the great works of the last century."
--William Vollman