a fresh and limpid translation - Bryan Karetnyk * Financial Times * Mishima blends the sublime and ridiculous in provocative and surprising ways. a fusion of sci-fi and social satire with great pathos, awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty. an extraordinary literary talent * The Times Literary Supplement *Īmong Japan's most celebrated post-war authors * Little White Lies * The wunderkind of the Japanese literary world. One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century * New Yorker * Mishima is the Japanese Hemingway * Life Magazine *Ī writer of immense energy and ability * Time Out * his subtlety, warmth and wit shine through * Telegraph *Ī mixture of humour, high literary seriousness and flying saucers. ReviewsOrdinary people harbour the grandest (and most terrible) thoughts in a cosmological fable as disconcerting as it is funny: behind the simplest actions lie visions of worlds in collision - Simon Ings * The Times * Her writing appears in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper and Lindsay. In 2020 she launched the sustainable fashion site Prelude, as profiled in Vogue. Weight (gm): 320 Author BiographyLucianne Tonti has worked in fashion in Melbourne, Sydney, London and Paris. Publication City, Country: Melbourne,Australiaĭimensions (cm): 23.3(H) x 15.3(L) x 1.9(W)320 And a charming young man, who claims to be from Venus too, tempts daughter Akiko away from the family. But there are other extra-terrestrials out there, ones who do not look so kindly on the flaws and foibles of humans. After all, humans may be terribly flawed, but aren't they worth saving? He sends out a coded message in the newspaper to find other aliens. He writes letters to Khrushchev, trying to warn everyone he can of the terrible threat. But Father, Juichiro, is worried about the bomb.
Already seen as oddballs in their small Japanese town in the 1960s, this extra-terrestrial knowledge brings them closer together they climb mountains to wait for UFOs, study at home together and regard their human neighbours with a kindly benevolence. Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. Each of them hails from a different planet. The Osugi family have come to a realization. The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs.
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