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A bleak novel, built around a true story involving the crime of a young Buddhist acolyte, in training for the priesthood at a Kyoto temple. "A sick young man's obsession with a beauty he cannot attain, and the way in which his private pathology leads him, slowly and fatefully, to self-destruction and a desperate deed of pyromania"
Another book read in preparation for my trip to Japan.
Somehow the way in which the author chose to end his own life influenced the way the book read, to me. ...more
Another book read in preparation for my trip to Japan.
Somehow the way in which the author chose to end his own life influenced the way the book read, to me. ...more
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