The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Mishima, Yukio, 1925-19702019
Books, Manuscripts
Find it!
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.
Main title:
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea / by Yukio Mishima.
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2019.
Collation:
131 pages ; 19 cm.
Notes:
First published in Japan 1963 under the title: Gogo no eiko.Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9781784879723 (hardback)
Language:
English
BRN:
462900
More Information: