Beautiful Star
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'Interplanetary, quite extraordinary... awash with dark humour & scenes of intense beauty'The Financial Times'One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century' -New YorkerBeautiful Staris a1962tale of family, love, nuclear war & UFOs, & was considered byMishimato be one of his very best books.Translated intoEnglishfor the first time, this atmospheric black comedy tells the story of theOsugifamily, who come to the sudden realization that each of them hails from a different planet: Father fromMars, mother fromJupiter, son fromMercury& daughter from Venus. This extra-terrestrial knowledge brings them closer together, & convinces them that they have a mission: to find others of their kind, & save humanity from the imminent threat of the atomic bomb...
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Stephen Dodd (translation)
Yukio Mishima - Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141992587
- Release date
- 2022
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'Interplanetary, quite extraordinary... awash with dark humour & scenes of intense beauty'The Financial Times'One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writer...