{"product_id":"9780811200325","title":"The Setting Sun","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThis powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.\u003c\/strong\u003e Set 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.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46227583336689,"sku":"9780811200325","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780811200325_p0.jpg?v=1765293154","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811200325","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}