EAN: 9780241441091

BEAUTIFUL STAR - YUKIO MISHIMA KARTONIERT (TB)

'Interplanetary  quite extraordinary . . . awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty'
Financial Times   'One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century'
New Yorker    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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