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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.

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS — five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 144
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781784875428
  • Release date
  • 2019