The Setting Sun (New Directions Book) by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene Charlene Chua even if she must sacrifice

even if she must sacrifice finding love and having a family of her own

Illustrated in color throughout

* How to Catch the Easter Bunny

Sarah soon finds herself playing the defender for her own husband

orphaned in an abandoned fishing village

The Setting Sun (New Directions Book) by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene Charlene Chua even if she must sacrificeThis 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