Spring Snow Summary
Yukio Mishima

Spring Snow Summary

"Spring Snow" is the first in a series of four novels collectively called "The Sea of Fertility." The other novels in the cycle are "Runaway Horses," "The Temple of Dawn," and "The Decay of the Angel." This novel demonstrates the impacts of the "modernization" of Japan from a feudalistic, patriarchal, and aristocratic society into something more fluid and democratic. These changes are revealed in the story of a pair of lovers...

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