Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun

Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun

by Osamu Dazai and Cocco Kashiwaya
Epub (Kobo - Fixed Layout), Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 12/03/2024

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A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in English & manga for the first time!


This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai's classic novel, often considered his masterpiece.


Set in the aftermath of World War II, this is the story of Kazuko, a strong-willed young woman from an aristocratic family that has fallen into poverty since the war. The book follows Kazuko's journey as she and her family struggle to survive and adapt to the harsh new conditions. In addition to having to move from Tokyo to the countryside, where she is forced to work in the fields to support the family, she has to deal with a difficult divorce, the birth of a stillborn child, and the return of her drug-addicted brother from the war. This gripping and inspiring portrait of one woman's determination to survive in a society that is in the grip of a social and moral crisis tells one story in a fast-changing world, with universal themes that resonates with readers today.


After Soseki Natsume, Osamu Dazai is Japan's most popular writer. Dazai is enjoying a surge in interest among young people today thanks to the success of the manga, anime and film series Bungo Stray Dogs, whose protagonist, a detective named Osamu Dazai, is based on the real-life author.

ISBN:
9781462924714
9781462924714
Category:
Graphic novels: literary & memoirs
Format:
Epub (Kobo - Fixed Layout), Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
12-03-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tuttle Publishing
Osamu Dazai

OSAMU DAZAI was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of northern Japan. A brilliant student, he entered the French department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree, he had never attended a lecture.

Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan before he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyo's Tamagawa Aqueduct. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday. 

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