The Setting Sun - Hardcover

By: Osamu Dazai;

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: Classics, Historical fiction,

ISBN: 9780811234443

SKU: BE501329937065

Pages: 192

Description: Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of postwar Japanese literature This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu Dazai’s novel 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.