The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima Paperback Book 9780099285670

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer Taunted by his schoolmates he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto where he develops an allconsuming obsession with the temples beauty