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Beautiful Star

Mishima, Yukio
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics)
Published: July 6, 2023
ISBN: 9780241441091
288 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£9.99

Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books.

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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