The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea av Yukio Mishima

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<p><b>A beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classic</b>.<br><br>''Mishima''s greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century'' <i>The Times</i><br><br>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''.<br><br>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.<br><br>They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.<br><br><b>A tale of youth and warped masculinity, rediscover the suspenseful and deeply ominous classic with this special edition</b>.<br><br>''A page-turning novel...a timeless classic'' <i>Independent</i><br><br><b>Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful</b></p>