Beautiful Star

Resumen del libro

Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was the novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece. 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...

Biografía del autor

Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) es uno de los escritores japoneses más importantes del siglo XX. La atmósfera de sus obras y los caracteres de sus personajes ostentan un sello inconfundible. Entre sus principales novelas figuran "Confesiones de una máscara", "El marino que perdió la gracia del mar", "Sed de amor", "El rumor del oleaje", "Después del banquete", "Música", "El color prohibido", "Los años verdes", "La escuela de la carne", "Vestidos de noche", "El Pabellón de Oro" y la tetralogía integrada por "Nieve de primavera", "Caballos desbocados", "El templo del alba" y "La corrupción de un ángel", todas ellas publicadas por Alianza Editorial.