{"product_id":"beautiful-star","title":"Beautiful Star","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Interplanetary, quite extraordinary . . . awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty' Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century' New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautiful 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated 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...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67989099675872,"sku":"9780241441091","price":3025.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9780241441091.jpg?v=1792211123","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/products\/beautiful-star","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}