The Setting Sun -- Osamu Dazai, Paperback Careers / Job Opportunities Readers walk away from Lyndsay's

Readers walk away from Lyndsay's work feeling seen

At the end of the world

Structured in three parts

Suddenly the gossip swirls

but she's just a kid

The Setting Sun -- Osamu Dazai, Paperback Careers / Job Opportunities Readers walk away from Lyndsay'sSet 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. Author: Osamu Dazai