PublishedVintage, July 2024 |
ISBN9781784879723 |
FormatHardcover, 144 pages |
Dimensions20cm × 12.8cm × 1.6cm |
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.
A tale of youth and warped masculinity, rediscover the suspenseful and deeply ominous classic with this special edition.
'A page-turning novel...a timeless classic' Independent
Vintage Quarterbound Classics- Bound to be beautiful
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful
A beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classic.
'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times
