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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)
  • Published: 31 May 1994
  • ISBN: 9780679750154
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $35.00
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

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3 Dec 2019
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3 Mar 2000
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16 July 2024
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1 July 2010
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31 May 1994
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A shocking tale about a violent group of teenage boys and the dangers of disillusionment from three-time Nobel Prize nominee Yukio Mishima.

A novel from "one of the outstanding writers of the world” (The New York Times) that explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. • “A major work of art.” —Time

Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world — to them, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental. When Noboru’s widowed mother is romanced by Ryuji, a sailor, Noboru is thrilled. He idolizes this rugged man of the sea as a hero. But his admiration soon turns to hatred, as Ryuji forsakes life onboard the ship for marriage, rejecting everything Noboru holds sacred. Upset and appalled, he and his friends respond to this apparent betrayal with a terrible ferocity.
  • Published: 31 May 1994
  • ISBN: 9780679750154
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima was born into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete control over mind and body, and loyalty to the Emperor – the same code that produced the austerity and self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless short stories and thirty-three plays, in some of which he acted. Several films have been made from his novels, including The Sound of Waves; Enjo, which was based on The Temple of the Golden Pavilion; and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea. Among his other works are the novels Confessions of a Mask and Thirst For Love and the short-story collections Death in Midsummer and Acts of Worship.

The Sea of Fertility tetralogy, however, is his masterpiece. After Mishima conceived the idea of The Sea of Fertility in 1964, he frequently said he would die when it was completed. On November 25th, 1970, the day he completed The Decay of the Angel, the last novel of the cycle, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide) at the age of forty-five.

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Confessions of a Mask
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Death in Midsummer
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Life for Sale
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Praise for The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

  • "Brilliantly prosed and composed ... a major work of art." --Time
  • "This novel is brilliant in the conciseness of its narrative."--The Nation
  • "Mishima is like Stendhal in his precise psychological analyses, like Dostoevsky in his explorations of darkly destructive personalities." --Christian Science Monitor
  • "[The Sea of Fertility] is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's." --National Review

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