num_pages: 236
description: The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, yet watches him, waiting.
language: English
title: The Decay of the Angel
titlecomplete: The Decay of the Angel
characters: Shigekuni Honda
genres: Classics, Asian Literature, Japan, Asia, Novels, Japanese Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 4348
places: Japan
series: The Sea of Fertility
publisher: Secker & Warburg