Beautiful Star (Penguin Modern Classics)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
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- Publisher ALLEN LANE
- ISBN13 9780241441091
- ISBN10 0241441099
- Type BOOK
- Pages 240
- Collection Penguin Modern Classics #
- Published 2023
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Subjects
English LiteratureBeautiful Star (Penguin Modern Classics)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book details
'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 YorkerBeautiful 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...