{"product_id":"the-setting-sun","title":"The Setting Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback. 175 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W.W. Norton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66825380135216,"sku":"23855","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0415\/9941\/files\/The-Setting-Sun.jpg?v=1779133906","url":"https:\/\/omoionline.mom\/products\/the-setting-sun","provider":"Omoi Life Goods","version":"1.0","type":"link"}