In store now! Beautiful Star, by Yukio Mishima
Whilst Mishima’s own life could make for an excellent novel in its own right, his fiction - only just recently translated into English for the first time - is one of the most extraordinary science-fiction novels ever written. Featuring a family of interplanetary aliens, as they attempt to grapple with their heritage, Mishima’s compelling narrative voice mines both comedy and heartbreak from the madness of his premise.
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Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
Paperback £12.99
A 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 realisation 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...
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