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Confessions of a Mask or The Temple of the Golden Pavilion I'd say.

The former is a kind of bildungsroman a la Thomas Mann or Hesse, bittersweet youth, lots of gay shit.

The latter is based on a real event: in 1950 a young monk burned down Kinkaku-ji, a famous golden temple in Kyoto and a national monument. The novel is kind of about the tyrannizing power of beauty, how best to divest oneself of obsession through self-immolation and violence. Also lots of gay shit.

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