The Setting Sun (New Directions Book) by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene Charlene Chua * The Moon

* The Moon

But when someone she knows goes missing and the police won't do anything about it

And what has she done

But Guinevere longs for a life unbounded by expectations

The Setting Sun (New Directions Book) by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene Charlene Chua * The MoonThis powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. 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