The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)
  • Published: 3 December 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784875428
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $24.99
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

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Paperback
3 Dec 2019
Paperback
3 Mar 2000
Hardback
16 Jul 2024
EBook
1 Jul 2010
Paperback
31 May 1994
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'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times

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.

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  • Published: 3 December 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784875428
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

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Praise for The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century

The Times

Explores the viciousness that lies beneath what we imagine to be innocence

Independent

Told with Mishima's fierce attention to naturalistic detail, the grisly tale becomes painfully convincing and yields a richness of psychological and mythic truth

Sunday Times

Coolly exact with his characters and their honourable motives. His aim is to make the destruction of the sailor by his love seem as inevitable as the ocean

Guardian