The Sound of Waves (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Yukio Mishima
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Idyll
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: The Japanese island of Uta-Jima (Song Island)
- Principal Characters: Shinji Kubo, Mistress Kubo, Hiroshi, Hatsue Miyata, Terukichi Miyata, Yasuo Kawamoto, Chiyoko, Jukichi Oyama
- Genres: Long fiction, Pastoral
- Subjects: 1950’s, Love or romance, Marriage, Islands, Storms, Sea or seafaring life, Gossip, Japan or Japanese people
- Locales: Islands, Kyoto, Japan, Osaka, Japan, Okinawa, Japan, Song Island, Japan, Uta-Jima, Japan
The Story:
Shinji, a young fisherman who was strong beyond his eighteen years, was the provider for his younger schoolboy brother Hiroshi and his widowed mother, formerly the best abalone diver on Uta-Jima. One day, returning from his day’s work with Jukichi, a master fisherman and his good friend, Shinji saw an unfamiliar, hauntingly beautiful face among the women helping to beach the fishing boats. The woman was Hatsue, daughter of the owner of two oceangoing freighters, who had been living with adoptive parents on another island. The boy could not get her image out of his...
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