Products specifications
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Author
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Osamu Dazai |
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Pub Date
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01/02/1968 |
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Binding
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Paperback / softback |
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Pages
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174 |
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Country
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United States |
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Dewey
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FIC |
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GBPPrice
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11.99 |
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 abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
