The setting sun
Book - 2022
"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, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu Dazai's novel 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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Political fiction
- Published
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New York:
New Directions Publishing
[2022]
- Language
- English
Japanese - Main Author
- Item Description
- First published clothbound by New Directions in 1956 and reissued in cloth in 2022. First published as New Directions Paperback 258 in 1968.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 175 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9780811234443
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