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  • The Temple of the Golden Pavillion

  • Written by: Yukio Mishima
  • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
  • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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The Temple of the Golden Pavillion

Written by: Yukio Mishima
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
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Publisher's Summary

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

What the critics say

"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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Shallow then deep

While seeming dry at first it conceals important dialogues and concepts about the sense of self and what one values and why.

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