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A beautiful hardback edition of a great Japanese classic, beautiful, lyrical and deeply ominous.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.'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesVINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful
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The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea: Vintage Quarterbound Classics, Yukio Mishima
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2024
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- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Yukio Mishima
- Uitgever
- Vintage Publishing
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2024
- Formaat
- Hardcover
- Aantal pagina's
- 144
- ISBN10
- 178487972X
- ISBN13
- 9781784879723
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Klassiekers, Japan, Azië, Japanse literatuur
- Beoordeling
- 3,75 van 5
- Aantekening
- A beautiful hardback edition of a great Japanese classic, beautiful, lyrical and deeply ominous.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.'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesVINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful