Tide Sao

A novel full of original beauty, a most clear and beautiful first love, a paradise full of vitality and happiness

One of the masterpieces of the literary master Yukio Mishima, who was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize, and a world-renowned classic novel

The 1st Shinchosha Literary Award, selected as a Chinese textbook for middle schools designated by the Ministry of Education, Japan

Everyone has read Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, San Mao, Kawabata Yasunari, etc.

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On the beach in Kasuga, where the twilight is getting thicker, 18-year-old fisherman Shinji meets a girl named Hatsue. The young girl's healthy complexion and calm brows moved Shinji's heart; the boy's powerful and sincere black eyes made Hatsue unforgettable. In encounters again and again, the two met and fell in love with each other. Their passion burned day by day, and they were so close that they could touch each other, but they never surpassed the moral norms. However, rumors of a tryst between the two spread throughout the village. In the idyllic sound of the tide, it seems that spring is coming to an end.

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I'm going to write an idyllic novel, trying to describe my paradise. The protagonist is a perfect life activist. Even if he is driven to a desperate situation, there is a kind of luck that has never been far away from him. ——Yukio Mishima

My Nobel Prize should go to Mishima. A talented writer as talented as him is rare in two or three hundred years. ——Kawabata Yasunari

A book full of happiness like Chaosao, the writer can only write one book in his writing career. Among Yukio Mishima's three masterpieces, if "Confessions of a Mask" is black and "The Golden Pavilion" is red, then "Tide Sao" is transparent. ——Marguerite Yourcenar (Member of the French Academy of Sciences)