The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio MishimaMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Disturbing, perceptive, symbolic. Those are the main adjectives that come to mind to describe this book. I confess that what I knew about the author stopped me from reading this (and some of his other books) for a while, because I expected a troubled/disturbed mind. And that is pretty much what I got.
This was, by all means, an excellent book, and one can understand the symbolism. Fusako represents the West (which Mishima hated), while Noboru, the 13 year-old, represents old fashioned honor (although, quite distorted and brainwashed, so I'm not sure what that was about). Ryuji was cast at sea, and gradually came to one side over the other.
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