The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Author(s): Yukio Mishima
A beautiful hardback edition of a great Japanese classic, the tale of a group of young boys with a warped sense of masculinity. Lyrical, suspenseful and deeply ominous. 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. 'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Random House UK
- : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
- : 30 June 2024
- : 1.6 Centimeters X 12.8 Centimeters X 20 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Yukio Mishima
- : 895.6/35
- : English
- : Hardback