Beautiful Star Av Yukio Mishima

<p><b>''Interplanetary, quite extraordinary . . . awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty'' <i> Financial Times</i><br><br>''One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century'' <i>New Yorker</i></b><br><i><br>Beautiful Star</i> 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><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>

Pris: kr 135.00 fra Norli