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Beautiful star

Paperback • 2023 • English

Beautiful star

By Yukio Mishima

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About the book

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 h...Show more

Science fiction: aliens / UFOs
Narrative theme: Politics
Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration

Book details

ISBN

9780241441091

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published year

2023

Language

English

Original title

Beautiful star

Format

Paperback

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