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.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
175 pages
Language
English
Published
Jan 1, 1997
Publisher
Charles E. Tuttle
Editions
66 editions
ISBN-13
9784805304747