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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

by Yukio Mishima

  • FINISHED
  • Finished January 2018
  • First published 1956

japan novel psychology

A stuttering acolyte at a Kyoto temple becomes fixated on its beauty.   The novel is based on a real arson in 1950 and follows the young man’s thinking up to that act.