Name: The Sailor who Fell From Grace With the sea
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Author: Mishima, Yukio ; Nathan, John
ISBN: 9780679750154

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The Sailor who Fell From Grace With the sea

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yukio Mishima

Translated by

John Nathan

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1994

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.5 x 13.3 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

0679750150

ISBN13

9780679750154

Synopsis "The Sailor who Fell From Grace With the sea "

Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world -- to them, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental. When Noboru's widowed mother is romanced by Ryuji, a sailor, Noboru is thrilled. He idolizes this rugged man of the sea as a hero. But his admiration soon turns to hatred, as Ryuji forsakes life onboard the ship for marriage, rejecting everything Noboru holds sacred. Upset and appalled, he and his friends respond to this apparent betrayal with a terrible ferocity.

Yukio Mishima

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Yukio Mishima (literary name) was born as Kimitake Hiroaka in Tokyo in 1925 and committed suicide in 1970 in protest against the end of traditional Japan. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize, but it was after his death that he achieved international fame. Mishima lived, like so many Japanese of his generation, the clash of two cultural models: the Western and the ancient and own of Japan. A prolific and diverse writer, Confessions of a Mask, his first notable success, made him famous at just twenty-four years old.

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