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

Author: Yukio Mishima

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 3 October 2019 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Vintage Classics Japanese Series' series.

Paperback | 144 pages
185 x 130 x 13mm | 144g

'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesA 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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