by Osamu Dazai · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9784805304747
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«The Setting Sun» is Osamu Dazai's novel published by Tuttle in English (175 pages).
Set in the early years of postwar Japan, the novel follows Kazuko, a young aristocrat who decides to abandon her class in a country transitioning from a feudal to an industrial society. Her story embodies the moral disorientation of the era and gave its name to the expression «people of the setting sun» in Japanese.
English translation by Donald Keene. Original title in Japanese: «斜陽»; originally published in 1947.
For readers of Japanese literature and twentieth-century classics who want to approach postwar Japan and its social transformation.
Shūji Tsushima , known by his pen name Osamu Dazai , was a Japanese novelist and author. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human, are considered modern classics.
