The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai follows an aristocratic family in postwar Japan as familiar structures lose their stability. The Setting Sun examines social change and intimate uncertainty in this English-language edition of a Japanese literary work.

Why read The Setting Sun? The novel connects declining social position with changing self-understanding. Attachment to the past meets the search for another way to live. Story and central themes Kazuko, her mother and her brother experience Japan's transformations after the Second World War. Family, class, addiction and alienation shape their lives. Who is this English edition for? It suits readers of Japanese classics and psychological fiction. Depression, suicide and addiction are present. The translator of the supplied copy has not been identified.