The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)
  • Published: 3 March 2000
  • ISBN: 9780099284796
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $26.00

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

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'A major work of art' Time

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.
  • Published: 3 March 2000
  • ISBN: 9780099284796
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of the Japan's most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests, besides writing, included body-building, acting and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realizing this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times.

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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

Mishima's imagery is as artful as a Japanese flower arrangement

New York Times

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

Mishima's imagery is as artful as a Japanese flower arrangement

New York Times