A beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classic. 'Mishima's greatest novel and one
of the greatest of the past century' The Times 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:
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