by YukioMishima (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Edition: 1
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 11 Mar 1999
ISBN 10: 0099284790
ISBN 13: 9780099284796
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