A beautiful hardback quarterbound edition of a great Japanese classic, the tale of a group of young boys with a warped sense of masculinity. Lyrical, suspenseful and deeply ominous.
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.
The novel was also adapted into a 1976 film starring Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles, and adapted in 1990 by Hans Werne Henze into his opera Das verratene Meer (The Betrayed Sea).
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