The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Mishima, Yukio

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Mishima, Yukio

Format: Trade Paperback

Published by Vintage, 1994

A shocking tale about a violent group of teenage boys and the dangers of disillusionment from three-time Nobel Prize nominee Yukio Mishima.

Reminiscent of Lord of the Flies, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea tells of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who 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 idealize the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard their disappointment in him as an act of betrayal on his part, and react violently.