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VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. 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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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Mishima Yukio
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- Released
- 2019
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Mishima Yukio
- Publisher
- Vintage Classic
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Flexi-binding
- ISBN10
- 1784875422
- ISBN13
- 9781784875428
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Classics, Japan, Asia, Japanese Literature
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. 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.