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The Setting Sun: A New Translation
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"Dazai's best novel […] focusing on a woman forced to deal with the consequences of heedless, Dazai-like behavior." —The New York Times
"Carpenter conveys Dazai's discordant voices while sweeping away some of the rhetorical cobwebs of Donald Keene's 1956 translation and its dated introduction, making this the definitive edition of an epochal classic of postwar Japan for a new generation." —Library Journal
A completely new translation of one of Osamu Dazai's best-loved novels, by award-winning...
"Carpenter conveys Dazai's discordant voices while sweeping away some of the rhetorical cobwebs of Donald Keene's 1956 translation and its dated introduction, making this the definitive edition of an epochal classic of postwar Japan for a new generation." —Library Journal
A completely new translation of one of Osamu Dazai's best-loved novels, by award-winning...