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.

Format: Paperback
Published: USA, 1968
Publisher: New Directions
Pages: 174
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0811200329
ISBN 13: 9780811200325