Probes the destructive effects of war and social transition for深刻的社会洞察
Features a protagonist, Kazuko, symbolizing the alienation of modern Japan
Written by Osamu Dazai, a significant figure in Japanese literature
English edition for international readers
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Osamu Dazai
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