Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
- By: Yukio Mishima
- Categories Books , Adults & General Classification , Literature & Fiction
- Stock Availability: In Stock
- ISBN: 9780099284796
- Total Pages: 144
- Available Book Formats: Paperback
- Year: 1999
Price:
JOD 11.00
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 disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.