Setting Sun, The: 斜陽 by Osamu Dazai

Setting Sun, The: 斜陽

Osamu Dazai

175 pages first pub 1947 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis in the early postwar years probes the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of this book, often considered Dazai's masterpiece, made the term 'people of th...

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