{"product_id":"the-setting-sun-9780811200325","title":"The Setting Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Osamu Dazai\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 17 Jan 1968 by New Directions Publishing Corporation.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Osamu Dazai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57529221644666,"sku":"9780811200325","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9780811200325.jpg?v=1794054632","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-setting-sun-9780811200325","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}