The Setting Sun : New Directions Book - Osamu Dazai

The Setting Sun

By: Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (Translator)

Paperback | 8 January 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
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"Written with beauty, refinement, and force: a work of unmistakable distinction..." -- Atlantic Monthly

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