The Temple Of Dawn Av Yukio Mishima

<p><b>Mishima’s literary powers are on full display in his penultimate novel, a meditation on reincarnation and Buddhist philosophy.</b><br><br>Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business. He is granted an audience with a young Thai princess known as ''Moonlight'', an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. Convinced she is a reincarnated spirit, he undertakes a long, arduous pilgrimage to the holy places of India. There he encounters her again. But the princess has become one more embodiment of all that Honda cannot possess.<br><br><b>''An elegy to the loss of pureness in the Japanese national spirit'' <i>Japan Times</i></b></p>