Download or read book The Decay of the Angel written by Yukio Mishima and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, yet watches him, waiting.