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Beautiful Star

ID 494985
Slug beautiful-star-yukio-mishima
Contributors
Author : Yukio Mishima
Annotation
Description <p>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.<br />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...</p>
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Subjects
300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
NSTC
Publisher Penguin Group
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 269
Duration
Publication date first 2023-07-30
Publication date latest 2023-07-30
Cover URL
Editions
  • ISBN: 9780241441091 (BC)

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