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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
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- Rok vydania
- 2024
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- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Yukio Mishima
- Vydavateľ
- Vintage Publishing
- Rok vydania
- 2024
- Väzba
- pevná
- Počet strán
- 144
- ISBN10
- 178487972X
- ISBN13
- 9781784879723
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Klasika, Japonsko, Ázia, Japonská literatúra
- Hodnotenie
- 3,75 z 5
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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