The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Resumen del libro

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 disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.

Biografía del autor

Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) es uno de los escritores japoneses más importantes del siglo XX. La atmósfera de sus obras y los caracteres de sus personajes ostentan un sello inconfundible. Entre sus principales novelas figuran "Confesiones de una máscara", "El marino que perdió la gracia del mar", "Sed de amor", "El rumor del oleaje", "Después del banquete", "Música", "El color prohibido", "Los años verdes", "La escuela de la carne", "Vestidos de noche", "El Pabellón de Oro" y la tetralogía integrada por "Nieve de primavera", "Caballos desbocados", "El templo del alba" y "La corrupción de un ángel", todas ellas publicadas por Alianza Editorial.