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    "description": "Yukio Mishima&rsquo;s <i>The Decay of the Angel</i> is the final novel in his masterful tetralogy, <i>The Sea of Fertility</i>. It is the last installment of Shigekuni Honda&rsquo;s pursuit of the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae.<br> &#160;<br> It is the late 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, once more encounters a person he believes to be a reincarnation of his friend, Kiyoaki &mdash; this time restored to life as a teenage orphan, T&#333;ru. Adopting the boy as his heir, Honda quickly finds that T&#333;ru is a force to be reckoned with. The final novel of this celebrated tetralogy weaves together the dominant themes of the previous three novels in the series: the decay of Japan&rsquo;s courtly tradition; the essence and value of Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics; and, underlying all, Mishima&rsquo;s apocalyptic vision of the modern era.",
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