Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima Paperback Book 9780241441091

Interplanetary quite extraordinary awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty Financial TimesOne of the greatest avantgarde 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 extraterrestrial 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