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katetea 's review for:
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
The characters in this book had such a strong base, but I wish the book as a whole was more in-depth. If we got to see more inside the "chief's" head, I think I would've appreciated the messed-up philosophy of the boys more. How did they meet? What was the Chief's backstory? I also would've loved to see an outsider's perspective (someone who did not know Ryuji or Fusako) to understand more of the attitude towards single mothers and/or sailors in Japan during the time. A lot of this stuff was hinted at throughout the book, from social pressures to absence of fathers, but I felt like it was just a bit short considering the magnitude of the storyline.