The Decay of the Angel

Synopsis

The final installment of the masterful tetralogy, the sea of fertility, finds shigekuni honda an elderly wealthy man in the 1960s, adopting a teenage orphan whom he is convinced is the reincarnation of his childhood friend. • "one of the best final scenes in the history of the novel. ” —david mitchell, the new york times book review honda, now an aged and wealthy man, once more encounters a person he believes to be a reincarnation of his friend, kiyoaki matsugae—this time restored to life as a teenage orphan, tōru.