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 realisation.
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Order your copy today directly from October Books or buy online through our bookshop store and we’ll get commission on your purchase. 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. Translated into English for the first time, this atmospheric black comedy tells the story of the Osugi family, who come to the sudden realisation that each of them hails from a different planet: Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. Keep up with news from Penguin Books here your copy today directly through October Books or buy online through our bookshop store and we’ll get a commission on your purchase.Ī tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books. Featuring a family of interplanetary aliens, as they attempt to grapple with their heritage, Mishima’s compelling narrative voice mines both comedy and heartbreak from the madness of his premise. Whilst Mishima’s own life could make for an excellent novel in its own right, his fiction - only just recently translated into English for the first time - is one of the most extraordinary science-fiction novels ever written.
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