The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series): Yukio Mishima.
Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic.
They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part — and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.
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- Author
- Yukio Mishima
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781784875428
- Release date
- 2019
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