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Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of postwar Japanese literature

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"What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide." -- Yukio Mishima
"From the point of view of wholesome common sense, Dazai’s writings may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant." -- Yasunari Kawabata
"Dazai offers something permanent and beautiful." -- The New York Times Book Review

The Setting Sun

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    A Hardback by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene

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      Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Published 15 November 2022
      ISBN-13 9780811234443
      978-0811234443
      ISBN-10 0811234444
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      Classics Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of postwar Japanese literature

      Trade Review
      "What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide." -- Yukio Mishima
      "From the point of view of wholesome common sense, Dazai’s writings may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant." -- Yasunari Kawabata
      "Dazai offers something permanent and beautiful." -- The New York Times Book Review

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