{"product_id":"9781784875428","title":"The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Yukio Mishima\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 October 2019 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Vintage Classics Japanese Series' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 144 pages\u003cbr\u003e185 x 130 x 13mm | 144g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yukio Mishima","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64839412613469,"sku":"9781784875428","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9781784875428.jpg?v=1780058612","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9781784875428","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}