Author: Mishima, Yukio
Japan
Published on 4 April 2024 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Vintage Quarterbound Classics' series.
Hardback | 144 pages
205 x 135 x 17 | 214g
A beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classic.
'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesA 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.
A tale of youth and warped masculinity, rediscover the suspenseful and deeply ominous classic with this special edition.
Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful