Beautiful Star By Yukio Mishima and the Prophet

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And how might we more deeply understand the moral and ethical failings--splashed across today's headlines--that have not only destroyed individual lives but caused widespread calamity as well

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Beautiful Star By Yukio Mishima and the ProphetThe novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece: a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs. The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. 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