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The Setting Sun

Paperback • 1968 • English

The Setting Sun

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About the book

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.

Book details

ISBN

9780811200325

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published year

1968

Language

English

Original title

The Setting Sun

Format

Paperback

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