Collection
Genres
Status
Available
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.
Publication
New York : Vintage International, 1994.
ISBN
0679750150 / 9780679750154
Pages
181
Language
Original language
Japanese
Original publication date
1963 (original Japanese)
1965 (English: Nathan)