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The Setting Sun
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- The author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo's Tamagawa Aqueduct.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780811200325
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- New Directions Books, (01 February 1968)
- Number of Pages
- 174
- Weight
- 247 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 203 x 132 x 13 mm
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