Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima

Beautiful Star by Yukio MishimaAwash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty' Financial Times'One of the greatest avant garde 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

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