The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Vintage Quarterbound Classics

A beautiful hardback edition of a great Japanese classic, beautiful, lyrical 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 details

• Authors: Yukio Mishima
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2024
• EAN: 9781784879723
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-972-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 200 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Interior life, Kanagawa, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1940 to c 1949, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary