Product details
- Publisher : New Directions; Revised edition (2 February 1968)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 174 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0811200329
- ISBN-13 : 978-0811200325
- Item Weight : 245 g
- Dimensions : 13.21 x 1.52 x 20.32 cm
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.
