Beautiful Star

Beautiful Star
Yukio Mishima, Stephen Dodd
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 240pg
28 Apr 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9780241545560
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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. . .
Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of the Japan' s most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests, besides writing, included body-building, acting and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realizing this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature three times.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780241545560
Published: 28 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 240

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