The Setting Sun

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.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Osamu Dazai - Осаму Дазай

Publisher:New Directions

Language:English

Publication Date:1968

Number of pages:174 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:132 mm / 5,2'

Height:203 mm / 8'

Weight:245 g

ISBN:9780811200325