The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

by Mishima, Yukio | Fiction & related items
Published 03/10/2019 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Vintage Classic Japanese Series series
Paperback | 144 pages
185 x 130 x 13mm | 142g

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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