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.
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Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099284796Number of pages: 144Weight: 106 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 8 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Mishima's greatest novel,and one of the greatest of the past centuryExplores the viciousness that lies beneath what we imagine to be innocenceTold with Mishima's fierce attention to naturalistic detail,the grisly tale becomes painfully convincing and yields a richness of psychological and mythic truthCoolly 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 oceanMishima's imagery is as artful as a Japanese flower arrangement
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