'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 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.
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- Authors:
- Mishima, Yukio
- Year Published:
- 2019
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781784875428
- Number of Pages:
- 144
- Publication Date:
- 03/10/2019
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Series:
- Vintage Classic Japanese Series
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781784875428