The Setting Sun
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: June 1968
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1
ISBN-13: 9780811200325
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; General
First sentence: Mother uttered a faint cry.
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."--Provided by publisher.