The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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