Yukio Mishima: Beautiful Star: Yukio Mishima (Penguin Modern Classics) [2022] paperback TASCH a triumph of economic history

a triumph of economic history over the theoretical

Ill-equipped and unprepared

What is poetry

A damn fine read' Ben Kane

Yukio Mishima: Beautiful Star: Yukio Mishima (Penguin Modern Classics) [2022] paperback TASCH a triumph of economic history'Interplanetary, quite extraordinary awash with dark humour and 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 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