The Setting Sun (New Directions Book) by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene Charlene Chua watching the legendary band Avenue

watching the legendary band Avenue A

Within the Whalebone Theatre

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

Illustrated in color throughout

orphaned in an abandoned fishing village

The Setting Sun (New Directions Book) by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene Charlene Chua watching the legendary band AvenueThis 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