The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea. Юкіо Місіма

A tale of youth and warped masculinity, this is the suspenseful, lyrical and page-turning Japanese classic.  A band of thirteen-year-old boys reject the stupidity of the adult world. They decide it is 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