
The Setting Sun
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Narrated by:
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June Angela
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By:
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Osamu Dazai
This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956 - and now, for the first time, is available in audio, with the spellbinding narration of June Angela.
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 abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
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Better tragedy than Shakespeare
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a worthwhile read in every sense.
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MORE OSAMU DAZAI TRANSLATIONS PLEASE!!!!!
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Simpleand complex all in one
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Beautiful and Sad Recording
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Amazing read
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Writing and Narration Perfect
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i really enjoyed this
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Another great work by Osamu Dazai!
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