{"product_id":"sailor-who-fell-from-grace-with-the-sea-the-1","title":"Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, The","description":"A beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Mishima''s greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century'' The Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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''.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA tale of youth and warped masculinity, rediscover the suspenseful and deeply ominous classic with this special edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57928550580559,"sku":"9781784879723","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/sailor-who-fell-from-grace-with-the-sea-the-1","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}