East Asian Literary Fiction
by Meredith Weatherby
A young fisherman and the daughter of the village's wealthiest man fall in love on a small Japanese island, where gossip and class threaten what neither of them will relinquish. Mishima's deceptively simple pastoral—clear-eyed about desire, labour, and the cruelty of small communities, and more tender than his reputation suggests.
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