The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Vintage Quarterbound Classics
$31.44
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
16 July 2024
Summary
A beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classic.
“Mishima’s greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century” - The Times
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 tha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784879723 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 178487972X |
| Author: | Yukio Mishima |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 16 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 134mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Vintage Quarterbound Classics |
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About The Author
Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima was born into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete control over mind and body, and loyalty to the Emperor - the same code that produced the austerity and self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless short stories and thirty-three plays, in some of which he acted. Several films have been made from his novels, including The Sound of Waves; Enjo, which was based on The Temple of the Golden Pavilion; and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea. Among his other works are the novels Confessions of a Mask and Thirst For Love and the short-story collections Death in Midsummer and Acts of Worship. The Sea of Fertility tetralogy, however, is his masterpiece. After Mishima conceived the idea of The Sea of Fertility in 1964, he frequently said he would die when it was completed. On November 25th, 1970, the day he completed The Decay of the Angel, the last novel of the cycle, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide) at the age of forty-five.
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