The Setting Sun
About the book:
The Setting Sun Book
Author: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene
Series: New Directions Book
Publisher: New Directions; Revised edition
Publish date: (January 17, 1968)
ISBN-10: 0811200329
ISBN-13: 978-0811200325
Pages: 200 eBook pages can be different
Language: English
Genres: Literature & Fiction , Contemporary , Political
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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