num_pages: 421
description: Librarian note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here.Yukio Mishima’s Runaway Horses is the second novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility . Again we encounter Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. In 1932, Shigeuki Honda has become a judge in Osaka.  Convinced that a young rightist revolutionary, Isao, is the reincarnation of his friend Kiyoaki , 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’s rightful power and threatening the very integrity of the nation. Runaway Horses is the chronicle of a conspiracy — a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war.
language: English
title: Runaway Horses
titlecomplete: Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility, #2)
characters: Isao Iinuma, Shigeyuki Iinuma, Shigekuni Honda
genres: Fiction, Asia, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Asian Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 7016
places: Japan, Osaka
series: The Sea of Fertility
publisher: Vintage