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The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Yukio Mishima
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics)
Published: March 11, 1999
ISBN: 9780099284796
144 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£9.99

A tale of youth and warped masculinity, this is the suspenseful, lyrical and page-turning Japanese classic.

A band of thirteen-year-old boys reject the stupidity of the adult world. They decide it is 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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