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The Setting Sun

Dazai, Osamu/ Keene, Donald (TRN)
27.38 SGD
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English

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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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This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.

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