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    "description": "Yukio Mishima&rsquo;s <i>Runaway Horses</i> is the second novel in his masterful tetralogy, <i>The Sea of Fertility</i>. Again we encounter Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae.<br> <i>&#160;</i><br> In 1932, Shigeuki Honda has become a judge in Osaka.&#160; Convinced that a young rightist revolutionary, Isao, is the reincarnation of his friend Kiyoaki<i>,</i> Honda commits himself to saving the youth from an untimely death. Isao, driven to patriotic fanaticism by a father who instilled in him the ethos of the ancient samurai, organizes a violent plot against the new industrialists who he believes are usurping the Emperor&rsquo;s rightful power and threatening the very integrity of the nation. <i>Runaway Horses</i> is the chronicle of a conspiracy &mdash; a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war.",
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