Mishima, Yukio: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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Translated from the Japanese by John Nathan.
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 disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.
| Condition: |  |
| Category: | Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English > |
| Publisher: | Penguin, (1976) |
| Item number / ISBN: | 0060514 |
| Binding: | paperback |
| Page count: | 142, [1] |
| Item language: | English |
