The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai risograph These dramatic and captivating visions

These dramatic and captivating visions invite us to explore unknown worlds and remind us of the discoveries of a future yet to be seen

marbled endpapers meet tattooed stowaways

Ellie’s life is turned upside down when she finds a curious instrument on the shore that makes the most amazing sound when she blows into it: Trööömmmpffff

No concept of money or wealth plagues the thoughts of these free-minded birds

focus had shifted away from issues of art and individual experience toward questions of politics and identity

The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai risograph These dramatic and captivating visionsThe Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai, translated by Donald Keene ISBN 9780811234443 192 page hardback from New Directions *** Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of postwar Japanese literature This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial