Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima Cornelis Jan Kelk Jouw afwezigheid is duisternis is

Jouw afwezigheid is duisternis is een roman van de geliefde en bekroonde schrijver Jón Kalman Stefánsson

zeer beladen daad van wederzijds voyeurisme aan het licht komt en de fascinatie van het paar voor S hun toch al gebrekkige huwelijk begint te domineren

blikt met de ogen van zijn helden op zijn vaderland terug

A chalk circle is metaphorically drawn around a society misdirected in its priorities

Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains

Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima Cornelis Jan Kelk Jouw afwezigheid is duisternis isTokyo, 1912. the closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family members of the waning aristocracy but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his