The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai Lisbeth Zwerger a prophet arrives on the

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The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai Lisbeth Zwerger a prophet arrives on theThe Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai, translated by Donald Keene ISBN 9780811234443 192 page hardback from New Directions *** Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of postwar Japanese literature This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial