num_pages: 181
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: Fiction, Asia, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Asian Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 37784
places: Yokohama, Japan
publisher: Random House