Vintage Japan:Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS ¨C five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. 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 ¨C and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.