Beautiful star
Mishima, Yukio, 1925-19702023
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'Beautiful Star' is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was the novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece. Translated into English for the first time, this atmospheric black comedy tells the story of the Osugi family, who come to the sudden realization that each of them hails from a different planet: Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. This extra-terrestrial knowledge brings them closer together, and convinces them that they have a mission: to find others of their kind, and save humanity from the imminent threat of the atomic bomb.
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Beautiful star / Yukio Mishima.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2023.London : Penguin Classics, 2023.
Collation:
240 pages ; 20 cm.
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Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9780241441091 (pbk)
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
2785189