Beautiful Star
Yukio Mishima, Stephen Dodd (translation)
'Interplanetary, quite extraordinary... awash with dark humour & scenes of intense beauty' The Financial 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 & UFOs, & was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books.
'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 & UFOs, & 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 & daughter from Venus. This extra-terrestrial knowledge brings them closer together, & convinces them that they have a mission: to find others of their kind, & save humanity from the imminent threat of the atomic bomb...
年:
2022
出版社:
Penguin
语言:
english
ISBN 10:
0141992581
ISBN 13:
9780141992587
文件:
EPUB, 907 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2022