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The Setting Sun (New Directions Book)

The Setting Sun (New Directions Book)

Osamu Dazai

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SKU:
9780811200325
UPC:
9780811200325
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Published by:
New Directions
Translated by:
Donald Keene
Pub date:
01/17/1968
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
174
ISBN:
9780811200325
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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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