Reading Group - Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima

Mishima's reactionary politics and his shocking suicide have ensured that his is a complex complex legacy, both in his native Japan and beyond and have tended to obscure his astonishingly varied and prolific literary output. Spring Snow, the first volume in his testamentary Sea of Fertility Tetralogy is one of his finest novels, blending poetry, tragedy and sly humour as tradition and modernity clash in the affairs of an enclosed aristocratic family in the years preceding the First World War. Robert