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Beautiful Star Yukio Mishima

Beautiful Star By Yukio Mishima

Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima


£12.99
Condition - Very Good
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Beautiful Star Summary

Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima

'Ordinary people harbour the grandest (and most terrible) thoughts in a cosmological fable as disconcerting as it is funny: behind the simplest actions lie visions of worlds in collision' - The 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 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...

Beautiful Star Reviews

Ordinary people harbour the grandest (and most terrible) thoughts in a cosmological fable as disconcerting as it is funny: behind the simplest actions lie visions of worlds in collision. -- Simon Ings * The Times *
Mishima is the Japanese Hemingway * Life Magazine *
A writer of immense energy and ability * Time Out *
One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century * New Yorker *
The wunderkind of the Japanese literary world... an extraordinary literary talent * The Times Literary Supplement *
Among Japan's most celebrated post-war authors * Little White Lies *

About Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima (Author)
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.

Additional information

GOR012171694
9780241545560
0241545560
Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
2022-04-28
240
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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