{"product_id":"the-setting-sun-new-directions-book","title":"The Setting Sun (New Directions Book)","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":"Books At Midnight","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48608952582349,"sku":"9780811200325","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/9780811200325.jpg?v=1785784106","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/the-setting-sun-new-directions-book","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}