{"product_id":"the-setting-sun-new-directions-book","title":"The Setting Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51344424075488,"sku":"0811200329","price":2460.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9780811200325.jpg?v=1775284707","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/products\/the-setting-sun-new-directions-book","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}