The Setting Sun (New Directions Book) by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene Charlene Chua he’s frustrated and confused when

he’s frustrated and confused when he wakes up in the hospital after undergoing emergency surgery on his arm

A gripping atmospheric suspense novel with a chilling twist ending

Sarah soon finds herself playing the defender for her own husband

As their gentle flirting sparks into something deeper

The Setting Sun (New Directions Book) by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene Charlene Chua he’s frustrated and confused whenThis 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