| The Setting Sun Contributor(s): Dazai, Osamu (Author), Keene, Donald (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811200329 ISBN-13: 9780811200325 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1968 Annotation: This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 56013350 |
| Series: New Directions Book |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.2" W x 7.98" (0.44 lbs) 174 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Keene, Donald: - Donald Keene is a distinguished translator of Japanese.Dazai, Osamu: - Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was a 20th century Japanese novelist. |