# The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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- Authors: [Yukio Mishima](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-01-26
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction, Fiction in translation

## Description

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 and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part – and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying. ‘Mishima’s greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century’ The Times TRANSLATED BY JOHN NATHAN

## Editions

### The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-479-6
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2024-07-04
- Language: en_GB

### The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-972-3
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2024-04-04
- Language: en_GB

### The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-542-8
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2019-10-03
- Language: en_GB

### The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0705-411-7
- Published: 2010-01-26
- Language: en_GB

### The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 0-099-28479-0
- Published: 1999-01-01
- Language: en_GB

### The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7975-015-4
- Pages: 192
- Published: 1994-05-31
- Language: en_US

## This book in other languages

- [Der Held der See](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima/de/der-held-der-see) (de_DE)
- [Ο ναυτικός που αρνήθηκε τη θάλασσα](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima/el/o-naftikos-pou-arnithike-ti-thalassa) (el_GR)
- [午後の曳航](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima/ja/gogo-no-eiko) (ja_JP)