{"product_id":"9781784879723","title":"The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea : Vintage Quarterbound Classics (Vintage Quarterbound Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA tale of youth and warped masculinity, rediscover the suspenseful and deeply ominous classic with this special edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48226601500907,"sku":"EB_LI0710_B13-08_SIMS","price":40.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781784879723-1.jpg?v=1781703085","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781784879723","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}