Keene Carolyn <br/><br/>
The Secret Of The Golden Pavilion 

 - New York  Carolyn Keene  
 - Extent- vii, 184 pages:  illustrations ;  20cm 
<br/><br/> Nancy, Bess, and George travel to Hawaii to help Mr. Sakamaki protect his inherited estate, Kaluakua. Nancy exposes imposters claiming the estate, uncovers a plot by the "Double Scorps" gang to steal a sacred cape, and investigates a "ghost". 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>044809536X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>he protagonist Mizoguchi's obsessive, destructive, and nihilistic search for beauty and meaning in a post-war, fragmented world.<br/> explores a deeply fractured moral life, centering on themes of obsessive beauty, nihilism, hypocrisy, and the destruction of innocence. The novel, based on the 1950 arson of Kyoto's Kinkaku-ji by a young monk, Mizoguchi, portrays a protagonist who is isolated, physically frail, and deeply disturbed by the stark contrast between the ideal, eternal beauty of the temple and the ugliness of the mundane world.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Fic. K26s 1987