The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Synopsis

A novel from "one of the outstanding writers of the world” (the new york times) that explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. • “a major work of art. ” —time thirteen-year-old noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world — to them, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental. When noboru’s widowed mother is romanced by ryuji, a sailor, noboru is thrilled. He idolizes this rugged man of the sea as a hero.