Номын тухай

This powerful and tragic novel vividly paints life  in a nation  in social and moral crisis. 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 diad a suicide, in 1948.  But the influence of his made " people of the setting sun"  a permanent  part of the Japanese  language, and his heroine. Kazuko, a young aristocrot who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie that pervades so much of the modern world.