num_pages: 144
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea
titlecomplete: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea
characters: Noboru Kuroda, Ryuji Tsukazaki, Fusako Kuroda
genres: Asia, 20th Century, Japanese Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Asian Literature, Literature, Japan, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 37759
places: Yokohama, Japan
publisher: Berkley