by Yukio Mishima · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140060232
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«The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea» is Yukio Mishima's novel, published by Penguin in paperback (144 pages, in English).
A group of thirteen-year-old boys despises the adult world, which they consider illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and trains in an impassive cruelty they call objectivity. When the mother of one of them begins a romance with a ship's officer, the boys first idealize the sailor and end up seeing him as a soft, romantic man.
New Ed edition, with a translation by John Nathan from the original Japanese Gogo no eiko. The work was originally published in 1966.
Aimed at the general reader, interested in literary fiction and modern Japanese narrative.
Kimitake Hiraoka, known by his pen name Yukio Mishima, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story writer, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku. He is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language.
