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.

Product details

• Authors: Osamu Dazai
• Assisted by: Donald Keene (Translation)
• Publisher: New Directions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780811200325
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-0032-5
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Series: New Directions Book
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature