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The Setting Sun Paperback by Osamu Dazai

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Directions; Revised edition (2 February 1968)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 174 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0811200329
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0811200325
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 245 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.21 x 1.52 x 20.32 cm

 

 

 

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.