The Setting Sun (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811200325)

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.

Author: Osamu Dazai
ISBN-10: 0811200329
ISBN-13: 9780811200325
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 01/17/1968
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.20w x 0.49d