Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea Vintage Japanese Classics

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list

'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.

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781784875428
Published: October 2019

Number of pages: 144
Width: 135 mm
Height: 190 mm
Depth: 11 mm

Publisher: Vintage Publishing