The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

The Setting Sun

Osamu Dazai with Donald Keene (Translator)

175 pages paperback 1947

66 editions

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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 pe...

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