Runaway Horses: The Sea of Fertility, 2The second novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility—and “a modern masterpiece” (The Baltimore Sun)—narrated by a judge in Osaka who believes he has met the successive reincarnation 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 34 |
Section 2 | 41 |
Section 3 | 47 |
Section 4 | 56 |
Section 5 | 62 |
Section 6 | 111 |
Section 7 | 120 |
Section 8 | 129 |
Section 15 | 254 |
Section 16 | 267 |
Section 17 | 275 |
Section 18 | 282 |
Section 19 | 295 |
Section 20 | 304 |
Section 21 | 317 |
Section 22 | 332 |
Section 9 | 157 |
Section 10 | 176 |
Section 11 | 192 |
Section 12 | 209 |
Section 13 | 227 |
Section 14 | 245 |
Section 23 | 347 |
Section 24 | 358 |
Section 25 | 361 |
Section 26 | 397 |
Section 27 | 410 |
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