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  • The Temple of the Golden Pavillion

  • By: Yukio Mishima
  • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
  • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (21 ratings)

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By: Yukio Mishima
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A hopeless stutterer, taunted by his schoolmates, Mizoguchi feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. But he quickly becomes obsessed with the temple's beauty, and cannot live in peace as long as it exists.

©1959 Copyright information US: Copyright 1959 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. This translation Copyright Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1959. Originally published in Japanese as Kinkakuji. (P)2010 Audible, Inc

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"An amazing literary feat in its minute delineation of a neurotic personality." ( Chicago Tribune)
"Beautifully translated... Mishima re-erects Kyoto, plain and mountain, monastery, temple, town, as Victor Hugo made Paris out of Notre Dame." ( The Nation)

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  • 14-04-2021

Inside the head of a nut job

This is the first Mishima book over read after hearing a lot about him in the past. This book reads like an insight into the mind of a killer. With every next step a dark feeling that something will go wrong. I enjoyed the story thinking back on it, but I remember not liking the narrative style. I felt the autobiographical nature of the book was a bit clunky at times and boring. I loved finding out it was based on a real story though.

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